“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.”
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.
“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.”
“There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.”
“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.”
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”
“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
“My life has run from misery to happiness.”
“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
“Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.”
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”
“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
“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.”
“Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.”