Famous Quotes About happiness

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.