HAPPINESS QUOTES II
quotations about Happiness
Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.
BARBARA O'NEAL
The Lost Recipe for Happiness
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON, Pamela
Happiness doesn't care how you get there.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free
If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
DANIEL WATERS
Heathers
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
American Note-Books, Aug. 22, 1837
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men
Like all human emotions, feelings of happiness don't last. No matter how hard we try to hold on to them, they slip away every time. And as we shall see, a life spent in pursuit of those good feelings is, in the long term, deeply unsatisfying. In fact, the harder we chase after pleasurable feelings, the more we are likely to suffer from anxiety and depression.
RUSS HARRIS
The Happiness Trap
Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.
STEPHANIE DOWRICK
Choosing Happiness
Make cheer from your own heart, for the sun rises and sets according to your perspective on the universe.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
SABINE BARING-GOULD
Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters
All achievement should be measured in human happiness.
WALTER LIPPMANN
A Preface to Politics
Men are nothing but speed bumps on the road to happiness.
MAXINE "MAX" FELICE SHAW
"Judging by the Cover", Living Single
Happiness is an inside job. We cannot rely on anyone else to be responsible for our happiness.
MICHAEL RICE
Happiness Is Just a Bowl of Choices
Lives don't change. We simply become more comfortable with our core misery, which is a form of happiness.
DAVID WORTH
"The Case of the Missing Screenplay", Bored to Death
It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
JEREMY BENTHAM
A Fragment on Government
If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.
ERNIE J. ZELINSKI
The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness
Whatever the philosophers may say, it remains true that, from the first hour of man's waking consciousness until that consciousness ceases, his most ardent desire is to be happy, and that the moment of his most profound regret is when he becomes convinced that on this earth perfect happiness cannot be found. Here is the problem which gives to the various ages of human history their special characters. Blithe are those ages when young and progressive nations still hope for happiness, or when men believe that in some new formula of philosophy, or of religion, or perhaps in some new industrial programme, the secret of human happiness has at last been found. Gloomy are those ages in which, as in our time, great masses of people are burdened with the conviction that all these familiar formulas have been illusions, and when persons of the keenest insight say--as they are now saying--that the very word happiness has in it a note of melancholy. No sooner, we are told, does one speak of happiness than it flees from him. In its very nature it lies beyond the sphere of practical realization.
KARL HILTY
Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life
The lovely thing about real happiness is that it is there all of a sudden, unexpected, weightless as a little summer cloud and just as radiant and intangible.
VICKI BAUM
I Know What I'm Worth