Happiness Quotes
Sydney J. Harris quote "Happiness is a direction, not a place"
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”
Aristotle happiness quote "Happiness depends upon ourselves"
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.”
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Bernard de Fontenelle quote "A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness"
“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”