Happiness Quotes VI

HAPPINESS QUOTES VI

quotations about Happiness

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Heart of the Matter

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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

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From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech to the New York State Agricultural Association, Sep. 7, 1903

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But for now, happiness throws stones.
It guards itself.
I wait.

MARKUS ZUSAK

Getting the Girl

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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

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You've got to be responsible for your own happiness -- you can't expect it to come flopping through the door like a parcel.

JULIAN BARNES

Talking It Over

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Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

JONATHAN HAIDT

The Happiness Hypothesis

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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

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Who would dare speak the word "happiness" in these tortured times? Yet millions today continue to seek happiness. These years have been for them only a prolonged postponement, at the end of which they hope to find that the possibility for happiness has been renewed. Who could blame them? And who could say that they are wrong? What would justice be without the chance for happiness? What purpose would freedom serve, if we had to live in misery?

ALBERT CAMUS

Combat, Dec. 22, 1944

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The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Notebooks, Aug. 16, 1916

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition.