HAPPINESS QUOTES XII

quotations about Happiness


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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS
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An Art of Living


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If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

The Architecture of Happiness


We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

DANIEL GILBERT

Stumbling on Happiness


The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.

ROBERT HOLDEN

Happiness Now: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast


Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have the time. But the present time has one advantage over every other--it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


So long as men strive for their individual happiness only, so long they shall strive for it in vain, because they strive for something which does not exist. When one will strive for all and all for one, then, and then only, general happiness will be possible. Until then men will remain savages, in constant war with each other, like fools destroying the very house that shelters them.

NORBERT LAFAYETTE SAVAY

Emancipation


What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Happiness is a shy thing. Grief is blatant and advertising. If a boy cuts his finger he howls, proclaiming his woe. If he is eating pie he sits still and says nothing.

FRANK CRANE

"Hidden Happiness", Four Minute Essays


The spider's most attenuated thread
Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie
On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts


What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

ANDRE GIDE

The Immoralist


Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no entrance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Happiness is a road-side flower, growing on the highways of Usefulness,
Plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


Happiness is a hard master -- particularly other people's happiness.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World


We are most happy when least aware of happiness.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

HUGH BLACK

Happiness


Happiness is not so much in the amount of treasure we possess as in being content with what we have.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

EUGENE O'NEILL

Strange Interlude


To be happy, even to conceive happiness, you must be reasonable or ... you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passions and learned your place in the world.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

Egotism in German Philosophy


My capacity for happiness ... you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy