HAPPINESS QUOTES XI

quotations about Happiness

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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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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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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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

ALBERT CAMUS

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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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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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

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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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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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The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

ARTHUR LYNCH

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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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Happiness is a shy thing. Grief is blatant and advertising. If a boy cuts his finger he howls, proclaiming his woe. If he is eating pie he sits still and says nothing.

FRANK CRANE

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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

ANDRE GIDE

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Happiness is a Moving Target.

DON WICKER

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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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My capacity for happiness ... you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

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You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

WASHINGTON IRVING

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What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?

RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE

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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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