“Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.”
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.
“Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.”
“Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.”
“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.”
“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.”
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
“Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.”
“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.”
“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”
“Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.”