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Happy People Quotes (page 20)

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't. Dick Francis
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones,..."
The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aldous Huxley quote: "You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to..."
You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. Aldous Huxley
Margaret Atwood quote: "They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though..."
They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier. Margaret Atwood
Virginia Woolf quote: "When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw,..."
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre Virginia Woolf
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted. P. D. James
Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mere faith, but demanding works. Thus she becomes the mistress of life itself. She does so with pleasure or with pain, according to the nonsense presented. She makes people contented or discontented with themselves. By dangling before some nothing but the specter of their eternal suffering, she becomes... Baltasar Gracian
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and... Daniel Kahneman
Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Mary Wollstonecraft
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy. Ayn Rand
While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of. C. S. Lewis
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true..."
Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat. Arthur Schopenhauer
Thing that people forget is, we all die, right? We all die and no matter what we do, the universe is going to go on, perfectly happy without us. Charles de Lint
Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and beating them into happy slavery. That's as true of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-year executive as it is for the poorest."Bill Talcott - Organizer Studs Terkel
The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember. Terry Prachett

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