“To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.”
Happiness is the thing everyone wants and nobody can quite pin down. These quotes explore joy, contentment, pleasure, and the surprising research that suggests happiness has less to do with circumstances than with how you respond to them.
“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
“To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
“If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”
“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”
“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.”
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
“To buy happiness is to sell soul.”
“But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.”
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.”
“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”
“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.”
“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”