happiness

1.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

- Nash, Fay B.

2.

If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

- William Lyon Phelps

3.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

- Douglas, Norman

4.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

- Buddha

5.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

- Margaret Cho

6.

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

- Jonathan Haidt

7.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

- Sokoloff, Boris

8.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

- Grayson, David

9.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

- Huxley, Aldous

10.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

- Bono, Edward De

11.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

12.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

- Sarnoff, David

13.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

- Albert Schweitzer

14.

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

- Bierce, Ambrose

15.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

- Meryl Streep

17.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

- Young, Margaret

18.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

19.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

- Levenson, Samuel

20.

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

- Maxwell Maltz