Happiness Insights
Abd Er-Rahman III of Spain:
I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects,
dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and
pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have
been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the
days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to
fourteen. [960 C.E.]
Albert Camus:
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists
of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus:
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person,
you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces
surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night
you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
Albert Schweitzer:
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer:
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Algernon Black:
Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the
Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of
supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each
world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people
may grow in vision, stature and dedication.
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Allan K. Chalmers:
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for.
Amy Lowell:
Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.
Anne Frank:
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and
yet the same.
Anne Frank:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes
to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Aristotle:
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient
Benjamin Disraeli:
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Bertrand Russell:
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest
exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we
live.
Buddha:
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Carl Jung:
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in
the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Claude Monet:
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Denis Waitley:
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is
the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Edith Wharton:
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edward de Bono:
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our
expectations.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Eric Hoffer:
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Francoise de Motteville:
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our
pleasure.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of
achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
George Burns:
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Sand:
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
HH the Dalai Lama:
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel
loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
[Tibetan Monk, Leader]
HH the Dalai Lama:
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,
practice compassion. [Tibetan Monk, Leader]
HH the Dalai Lama:
Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as
the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether
we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit
from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of
our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. [Tibetan
Monk, Leader]
Helen Keller:
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we
see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that
which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for
ourselves.
Helen Keller:
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller:
Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not
attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Henry David Thoreau:
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Horace Friess:
All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
Hubert H. Humphrey:
Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness,
the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
James M. Barrie:
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from
themselves.
James Oppenheim:
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his
feet.
John Barrymore:
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John D. Rockefeller:
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
[American Billionair]
John Milton:
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of
Heaven.
Kin Hubbard:
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both
failed.
Leo Buscaglia:
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to
choose life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein:
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to
enjoy ourselves.
Mark Twain:
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. [American Author]
Mark Twain:
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. [American Author]
Mark Twain:
Happiness is a Swedish sunset -- it is there for all, but most of us look the
other way and lose it. [American Author]
Martha Washington:
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our
circumstances.
Med Yones:
There is no such thing as "the pursuit of happiness". The word pursuit is
anti-happiness! There is no such thing as seeking happiness. Either you are
happy with your life or you are not. Seeking happiness is an illusion that can
never be achieved, because happiness is a product of your mindset not your life
events. If you attach your happiness to something outside of you then you are
setting yourself for a life full of struggle and disappointments. [Gross
National Happiness (GNH)]
Med Yones:
Happiness is an open mind. The more you open
your mind the more you'll enjoy life. [Happiness Coach]
Med Yones:
Happiness is an Association. If you want to
be happy, associate with happy people. [President of International
Institute of Management]
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but
which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Norman MacEwan:
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is
of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to
those who have not tried it.
Pearl S. Buck:
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Peyton Conway March:
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most
in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by
giving them to someone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
To fill the hour -- that is happiness. [American Author]
Ramona L. Anderson:
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase
idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the
emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to
search was within.
Robert Heinlein:
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to
your own.
Sophocles:
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Susan B. Anthony:
Independence is happiness.
Theodor Fontane:
Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you
belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life,
that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.
Thich Nhat Hanh:
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be
the source of your joy.
Thomas Jefferson:
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in
the bosom of my family. [American President]
Thomas Jefferson:
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;
and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is
sunshine. [American President]
W. Beran Wolfe:
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a
symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not
be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under
the radiator.
Willa Cather:
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.
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