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Quotations by Subject: Happiness
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.: Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.: Immanuel Hermann Fichte
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.: J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.: James Oppenheim
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.: Jean Houston
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.: John Berry, Flight of White Crows
Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy.: John Mayer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 05-14-12
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.: Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.: Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
I’ve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton, 06-04-08
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!: Louise Bogan
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Very little is needed to make a happy life.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.: Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

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