HAPPINESS QUOTES VI

quotations about Happiness

Gold, gold! It may not buy happiness, but it can buy you a better state of misery, that's for sure!

COUNT DUCKULA

"Ghostly Gold", Count Duckula


I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

KARL HILTY

Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life


Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

PATRICIA BRIGGS

Moon Called


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


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


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


And happiness ... Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one ... What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign -- the divine minus.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

We


For no man lives, who always happy is.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Acceptance is the key to everything.

MICHAEL J. FOX

Esquire, Dec. 2007


Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

JOHNNY CARSON

Happiness Is a Dry Martini


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


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


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

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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


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


Happiness is not the end result of attaining success, fame or wealth it is the inner joy you experience when you love your work journey, it's here in present moment when you fall in love with the process.

ANKIT SHENDE

Happiness Is Not For Sale


The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.

ROBERT HOLDEN

Happiness Now: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast


All that you ever wanted and that which you will ever want is within your reachable happiness radius.

STEVE NYAMBE

"Don't worry, happiness is yours to achieve", NewsDay, June 30, 2018