HAPPINESS QUOTES XI

quotations about Happiness

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

JEFFREY BERNARD

Tags: Jeffrey Bernard

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Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

ARISTOTLE

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There is even evidence happiness is contagious, so happier people help others around them to become happier, too.

JOSEPH FRENCH

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Perhaps happiness is, was, and ever shall be the ultimate human end in every time and place.

DARRIN M. MCMAHON

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

AYN RAND

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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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

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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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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

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Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

ALBERT CAMUS

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

ELLEN GILCHRIST

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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

AMBROSE BIERCE

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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

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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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That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their un-escapable social destiny.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

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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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