Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.—–Amy Lowell
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. —-HH the Dalai Lama
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. —-Jacques Prévert
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne
I hate being happy. It pisses me off. Because I know if I try to grab it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes. And I hate just looking. I always try to grab. ~D.H. Mondfleur
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. —–Robert S. Lynd
If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal. —-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. —–John Stuart Mill
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ——Martha Washington
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. —-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever …. Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue. —-Aristotle, In Philosophy
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. ——Chinese Proverb
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it. —–John Ruskin
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo