HAPPINESS QUOTES II

quotations about Happiness

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Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.

ARISTOTLE

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Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

BARBARA O'NEAL

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Happiness doesn't care how you get there.

ERNIE J. ZELINSKI

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Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

JOHNNY CARSON

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Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

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Like all human emotions, feelings of happiness don't last. No matter how hard we try to hold on to them, they slip away every time. And as we shall see, a life spent in pursuit of those good feelings is, in the long term, deeply unsatisfying. In fact, the harder we chase after pleasurable feelings, the more we are likely to suffer from anxiety and depression.

RUSS HARRIS

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If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy. You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.

JAMES ALLEN

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Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

STEPHANIE DOWRICK

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If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

DANIEL WATERS

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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere.

DANIEL GILBERT

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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

Tags: Sabine Baring-Gould

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Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

JEAN LIEDLOFF

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Happiness is an inside job. We cannot rely on anyone else to be responsible for our happiness.

MICHAEL RICE

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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

DOUG LARSON

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But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth.

DARRIN M. MCMAHON

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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

CHARLES DICKENS

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

JEREMY BENTHAM

Tags: Jeremy Bentham

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Whatever the philosophers may say, it remains true that, from the first hour of man's waking consciousness until that consciousness ceases, his most ardent desire is to be happy, and that the moment of his most profound regret is when he becomes convinced that on this earth perfect happiness cannot be found. Here is the problem which gives to the various ages of human history their special characters. Blithe are those ages when young and progressive nations still hope for happiness, or when men believe that in some new formula of philosophy, or of religion, or perhaps in some new industrial programme, the secret of human happiness has at last been found. Gloomy are those ages in which, as in our time, great masses of people are burdened with the conviction that all these familiar formulas have been illusions, and when persons of the keenest insight say--as they are now saying--that the very word happiness has in it a note of melancholy. No sooner, we are told, does one speak of happiness than it flees from him. In its very nature it lies beyond the sphere of practical realization.

KARL HILTY

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Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

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