HAPPINESS QUOTES XIII

quotations about Happiness

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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

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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

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

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

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The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

KARL HILTY

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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

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Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

ALBERT CAMUS

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The happy man is he who turns his soul
Unto the light of joys that he can find;
And pays each day its just demand of toll,
But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

EDGAR GUEST

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Maybe you have to wait for happiness. Maybe the rest is only words.

ELLEN GILCHRIST

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Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn't possible?

ANNE RICE

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To be conscious of happiness is to hear Nemesis rapping at the portals.

PHILIP MOELLER

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

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One secret to long-term happiness is surrounding yourself with others who are also happy.

DEEP PATEL

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

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Happiness is variously associated by different people with a multiplicity of conscious states, such as calm contentment, ecstasy, hilarity, elation, and others. These states all have some claim to be parts or aspects of happiness.... However, they certainly don't all obtain together, and some of them, once again, seem incompatible with each other--ecstasy and calm contentment, for instance.... It may be that happiness is one of those concepts of "folk psychology" that doesn't designate any psychological state, and can't have any explication in terms of the kind of science that tries to discover general laws or regularities.

NICHOLAS P. WHITE

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If I think that happiness is possible, I know all too well its hidden nature--and by what wretched paradox, instead of being an excess that would elevate us in dignity, it is a numbness we are only aware of afterward.

ALBERT CAMUS

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

ANDRE GIDE

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

DOUGLAS ADAMS

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A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

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Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

EUGENE O'NEILL

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Most folks are just about as happy as they've made up their minds to be.

KEN ALSTAD

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