“I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.”
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.
“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
“I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.”
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.”
“Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.”
“Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.”
“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
“You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.”
“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”
“Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.”
“And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”
“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”