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Happiness Quotes
"Desire is individual. Happiness is common."
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"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords."
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"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
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"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
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"I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing."
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"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."
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"The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy."
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"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
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"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."
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"Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
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"Love is trembling happiness."
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"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
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"I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure."
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"She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness.With hope that the weapons could in time vanish from the picture."
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"I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families."
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"If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens."
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"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
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"A feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced."
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"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
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"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
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"But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud."
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"I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?"
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"A happy one will do her best to make you happy but a pathetic one will convert your life to a pathetic one."
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"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
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