“If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.” – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 22. Elizabeth Lavenza in letter to Victor.
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong. – John Lubbock The Pleasures of Life.
Happiness is anyone and anything that’s loved by you. – Clark Gesner Charlie Brown (based on Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts), in the musical – You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. – Robert A. Heinlein
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. – Herman Hesse
Like most people, I have several pet subjects – that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don’t get me started on happiness, or habits, or children’s literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it. – Gretchen Rubin
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me. – Gherman Titov
People don’t realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time. – Gunnar Myrdal
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you’re not looking for it. – Hugh Laurie
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. – Havelock Ellis
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. – Henry Knox
I’m constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier – which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times. – Gretchen Rubin
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. – Grover Norquist
Inside every adult there’s still a child that lingers. We’re happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children. – Guy Laliberte
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Act 1.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. – Horace
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 Brown, Jr.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. – Herman Hesse
It’s not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don’t like it. Girls don’t like you as much. You lose some happiness when that’s all you think about. – Hilary Duff
For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the ‘Moment of Happiness,’ my daily emails of happiness quotes. – Gretchen Rubin
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. – Helen Keller
Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness. – Hedi Slimane
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should. – Gretchen Rubin
We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. – Gretchen Rubin
