HAPPINESS QUOTES VII

quotations about Happiness

Happiness is not the end result of attaining success, fame or wealth it is the inner joy you experience when you love your work journey, it's here in present moment when you fall in love with the process.

ANKIT SHENDE

Happiness Is Not For Sale


One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”

SIGMUND FREUD

Civilization and Its Discontents


Call no man happy till he is dead.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon


The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

ROBERT HOLDEN

Happiness Now: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast


You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Beloved Vagabond


What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

Méditations Poétiques


We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

ROBERT WILSON LYND

Irish & English: Portraits and Impressions


In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


If you ask a man how he is, he searches himself to find a pain to report. If he has nothing but happiness he hates to mention it, and says, "Oh, not half bad."

FRANK CRANE

"Hidden Happiness", Four Minute Essays


Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus


Your happiness is a one person job -- it begins and ends with you.

JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE

100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love


If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.

HUGH BLACK

Happiness


I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Mosquitoes


As to the desire for happiness, we find it is universal. That is one thing upon which all mankind are agreed.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


Happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

JULIAN BARNES

Flaubert's Parrot


Much too oft we make life gloomy--
When happy we might be,
If we gathered more of sunshine,
And not dark shadows see.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON, Thoughts


Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy ... but how much you enjoy what you have!

TOM WILSON

Ziggy, Feb. 2, 1998


If you wish to be happy, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr


Regard this world as the place to sow seed for eternity, and after taking such a portion from this world as may give you strength to take the journey to the other world, turn away from whatever is more than this. Realize that the future world is the place for enjoyment and happiness which is eternal, and the land to behold the excellence and beauty of the Lord; and make it your purpose, divine and omniscient grace assisting you, never to cease from the pursuit of them, but to secure as your prey, the phoenix of felicity and happiness.

MOHAMMED AL-GHAZZALI

The Alchemy of Happiness


Gold, gold! It may not buy happiness, but it can buy you a better state of misery, that's for sure!

COUNT DUCKULA

"Ghostly Gold", Count Duckula