HAPPINESS QUOTES X

quotations about Happiness

Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.

AMY LOWELL

"Happiness", Sword Blades and Poppy Seed


Unconditional happiness is the one that is innate in human beings, that is permanent, that has no end, which exists when we reach a stage of acceptance of everything that surrounds us.

LUIS ALVES

Happiness Is Possible: Towards Unconditional Happiness


I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask too much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me.

JEAN ANOUILH

Antigone


We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Candida


Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

JOHNNY CARSON

Happiness Is a Dry Martini


It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Diary


There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

ALBERT CAMUS

letter, Jun. 18, 1938


One of the world's greatest mistakes is that of supposing that complete happiness can be found in the attainment of some one thing, whereas the helps to happiness are very numerous. Man is a compound being, possessing physical, intellectual, and spiritual natures, each of which have many wants which must be supplied if man is to be a happy being.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park


He that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

"Crowds"


And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more -- to learning. Always.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath


Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

OSCAR LEVANT

attributed, TIME Magazine, August 28, 1972


Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

The True Story of My Life


Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

You Learn by Living


False happiness is like false money, it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and allay, and feel the loss.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"


Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me--so extreme, so violent that I wasn't sure I'd survive it.

STEPHENIE MEYER

Breaking Dawn


Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

EPICTETUS

The Art of Living


Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

WILL FERGUSON

Happiness


The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

HUGH BLACK

Happiness