HAPPINESS QUOTES XI

quotations about Happiness

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park


Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The Garden of Eden


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


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


If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

The Architecture of Happiness


Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

WILL FERGUSON

Happiness


What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?

RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE

Learning


Perhaps happiness is, was, and ever shall be the ultimate human end in every time and place.

DARRIN M. MCMAHON

Happiness: A History


My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

AYN RAND

Anthem


The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.

ROBERT HOLDEN

Happiness Now: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast


No man is happy who does not think himself so.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims


Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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


Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Huxley and God: Essays


There is even evidence happiness is contagious, so happier people help others around them to become happier, too.

JOSEPH FRENCH

"Speak health, hope, happiness to your children", IndeOnline, June 30, 2018


To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

letter to Madame Louise Colet, Aug. 13, 1846


Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living


States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity


So long as men strive for their individual happiness only, so long they shall strive for it in vain, because they strive for something which does not exist. When one will strive for all and all for one, then, and then only, general happiness will be possible. Until then men will remain savages, in constant war with each other, like fools destroying the very house that shelters them.

NORBERT LAFAYETTE SAVAY

Emancipation