More Happiness Quotations And Sayings

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“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
– Samuel Johnson

“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.”
– Seneca

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
– Sigmund Freud

“When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.”
– Sophocles

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
– St. Augustine

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
– Sydney J. Harris

“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”
– Taisen Deshimaru

“If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.”
– Tenzin Gyatso, 14Th Dalai Lama

“Doing cartwheels in the green grass of happiness and skipping high towards the blue heavenly skies of joy!”
– Terri Guillemets

“When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights – and flowers will bloom on a barren land.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.”
– Terri Guillemets

“There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”
– Thomas Merton, 1955

“Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
– Thomas Szasz

“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.”
– Thornton Wilder

“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.”
– V.S. Pritchett

“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”
– Walter Savage Landor

“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”
– Werner Erhard

“Happiness is an inside job.”
– William Arthur Ward

“On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”
– William R. Inge

“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
– William Saroyan

“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”
– William Shakespeare

“Pleasure is spread through the earth. In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.”
– William Wordsworth, 1806

“If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.”
– Willis Goth Regier, In Praise Of Flattery, 2007

“Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin

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