HAPPINESS QUOTES XII

quotations about Happiness


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Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no entrance.

EDWARD COUNSEL
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Maxims


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Happiness is a Moving Target.

DON WICKER

Happiness Is a Moving Target


The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life


The happy man is he who turns his soul
Unto the light of joys that he can find;
And pays each day its just demand of toll,
But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

EDGAR GUEST

"The Present"


Happiness is a shy thing. Grief is blatant and advertising. If a boy cuts his finger he howls, proclaiming his woe. If he is eating pie he sits still and says nothing.

FRANK CRANE

"Hidden Happiness", Four Minute Essays


In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

letter to Kleiner, October 1916


My capacity for happiness ... you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

RENé DESCARTES

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes


We are most happy when least aware of happiness.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

HUGH BLACK

Happiness


Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

EUGENE O'NEILL

Strange Interlude


Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

ARISTOTLE

Politics


What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

DANIEL GILBERT

Stumbling on Happiness


As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World


Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

EPICTETUS

The Art of Living


Happiness is a road-side flower, growing on the highways of Usefulness,
Plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


If I think that happiness is possible, I know all too well its hidden nature--and by what wretched paradox, instead of being an excess that would elevate us in dignity, it is a numbness we are only aware of afterward.

ALBERT CAMUS

letter, Jun. 18, 1938


Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

WASHINGTON IRVING

Old Christmas