HAPPINESS QUOTES III
quotations about Happiness
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
The Essential Wyndham Lewis
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
AYN RAND
Atlas Shrugged
When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth.
DARRIN M. MCMAHON
Happiness: A History
Nothing, not even a Utopia, can necessarily make the pursuit of happiness a successful one that ends in capture. The best society can merely allow every individual to flourish in the pursuit.
DANIEL NETTLE
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not, it were better that nothing should be. Without her, wisdom is but a shadow, and virtue a name; she is their sovereign mistress; for her alone they labour, and by her they will be paid; to enjoy her, and to communicate her, is the object of their efforts, and the consummation of their toil.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Brisingr
It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
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
There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
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
All achievement should be measured in human happiness.
WALTER LIPPMANN
A Preface to Politics
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
The farther from truth, the farther from happiness.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
Happiness, like every other emotional state, has blindness and insensibility to opposing facts given it as its instinctive weapon for self-protection against disturbance. When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. He must ignore it; and to the bystander he may then seem perversely to shut his eyes to it and hush it up.
WILLIAM JAMES
The Varieties of Religious Experience
When people say that they are happy with their lives, they do not usually mean that they are literally joyful, or experiencing pleasure, all the time. They mean that, upon reflection on the balance sheet of pleasures and pains, they feel the balance to be reasonably positive over the long term.
DANIEL NETTLE
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
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
Men are nothing but speed bumps on the road to happiness.
MAXINE "MAX" FELICE SHAW
"Judging by the Cover", Living Single
The fact is that happiness does not come from the big events of life, but is made up of innumerable little things. Ordinary everyday happiness is composed of shoes that fit, stomach that digests, purse that does not flatten, a little appreciation, and a bit of this, that, and the other, too trifling to mention.
FRANK CRANE
"Hidden Happiness", Four Minute Essays
But a dark cloud was at hand. If there be any truly painful fact about the world now tolerably well established by ample experience and ample records, it is that an intellectual and indolent happiness is wholly denied to the children of men.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies