HAPPINESS QUOTES VI

quotations about Happiness

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

JOHN LUBBOCK

Peace and Happiness


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


Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with people and projects beyond ourselves. Happiness comes from getting these connections right.

JONATHAN HAIDT

The Happiness Hypothesis


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 never becomes a habit.

MARILYN MONROE

My Story


Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

MAXIM GORKY

attributed, Know Your Limits


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


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


The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

ZIG ZIGLAR

Staying Up


Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away,
Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day,
The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth--
To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

BHARTRHARI

"The Praise of the Wise Man"


That thou art happy, owe to God;
That thou continu'st such, owe to thy self,
That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost


For no man lives, who always happy is.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


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

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


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


Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


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


Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit