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Happy Quotes (page 24)

Joseph Barbara quote: "Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from..."
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. Joseph Barbara
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. Vladimir Nabokov
Richard Bach quote: "Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right..."
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. Richard Bach
Jane Austen quote: "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
Aristotle quote: "Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas quote: "Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by..."
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. Thomas Aquinas
James Allen quote: "Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. James Allen
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged."
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. Louisa May Alcott
Aeschylus quote: "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus
Theodor Adorno quote: "Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Theodor Adorno
He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is not sought; and, moreover, is only known when it is lost. It is doubtful whether anyone can say "I am happy"; but only "I was happy". For happiness is not well-being, content, heart's ease, pleasure, enjoyment: all these go to make happiness, but they are not happiness. W. Somerset Maugham
Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa,... Tom Robbins
One evening, for example, he was troubled because he could no longer tell whether or not his actions were pleasing to God. He went to see the bishop and asked what he should do.'Abraham took in strangers, and God was happy,' came the reply. 'Elijah disliked strangers, and God was happy. David was proud of what he was doing, and God was happy. The publican before the alter was ashamed of what he did, and God was happy. John the Baptist went out into the desert, and God was happy. Paul went to... Paulo Coelho
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given... Viktor E. Frankl
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love. Elizabeth Gilbert

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