Happiness Quotes
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Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction. When we make progress toward satisfying our most cherished needs, goals, and wishes in the sixteen areas of life that contribute to contentment, we create well-being. Our research also shows that when we make progress toward attaining goals in one area of life, we raise our overall life satisfaction in other areas because of the potent “spillover” effect.
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There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
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I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.
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Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
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Progress equals happiness.
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Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
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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.
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
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Anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
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I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.
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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
