Quotes about happiness

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier."

Young, Margaret on happiness   

"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself"

Zee, James Van Der on happiness   

"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory."

Ziglar, Zig on happiness
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"People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow."

Zimbler, Adam on happiness   

"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."

Beckett, Samuel on happiness   

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Bono, Edward De on happiness   

"There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow."

Brande, Dorothea on happiness   

"Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on happiness   

"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."

Carlyle, Thomas on happiness   

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"Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on happiness   

"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong."

Greene, Graham on happiness   

"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it."

Herold, Don on happiness   

"The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance."

James, William on happiness   

"The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added."

Johnson, Samuel on happiness   

"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."

Knuth, Don on happiness   

"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on happiness
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"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."

Maslow, Abraham H. on happiness   

"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

Weil, Simone on happiness   

"The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Bergman, Ingrid on happiness   

"sometimes happiness is hard to find"

Unknown on happiness   

"Full happiness comes from fully happy relationships. Anyone who denies this simply has not fully drunk from the infinite well of love."

Oshana Dave on happiness   

"Blaming another person for your unhappiness is like blaming them for your high cholesterol. Either one will eventually kill you. "

anomynous on happiness   

"There is a simple and direct way to happiness. Complicated methods are simply wrong"

Oshana Dave on happiness   

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

Dalai Lama on happiness   

"Blessed is who has done nothing to regret."

Tadj Abelkader on happiness   

"“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”"

Wolestoncraft, Mary on happiness   

"Being too suspicious of your happiness will inevitably lead you back to a space where there is none. There is an element of mystery to every happiness."

Trean, A. Brandon on happiness   

" The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal>"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on happiness   

"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy."

Lightman, Alan on happiness   

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.~ James Oppenheim"

Oppenheim, James on happiness