HAPPINESS QUOTES V

quotations about Happiness

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

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


The continual search for happiness is a primary reason that so many people are miserable. If you make happiness your goal, you are almost certainly destined to fail. You will be on a continual roller coaster, changing from successful to unsuccessful with every mood change. Life is uncertain, and emotions aren’t stable. Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Your Road Map for Success


The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearnings after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


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


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

MARKUS ZUSAK

Getting the Girl


We are all travelling to one destination--happiness; but none are going by the same road.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

WILLIAM JAMES

The Varieties of Religious Experience


The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.

ROBERT HOLDEN

Happiness Now: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast


If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to John Page, Jul. 15, 1763


False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

JOHN LUBBOCK

Peace and Happiness


Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations


Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations


Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech at Groton, May 24, 1904


Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

ROBINSON JEFFERS

"Post Mortem"


There is a restless endeavour in the mind of man after Happiness. This appetite is wrought into the original frame of our nature, and exerts itself in all parts of the creation that are endued with any degree of thought or sense. But, as the human mind is dignified by a more comprehensive faculty than can be found in the inferior animals, it is natural for men not only to have an eye each to his own happiness, but also to endeavour to promote that of others.

GEORGE BERKELEY

The Works of George Berkeley

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