“Look for happiness under your own roof.”
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Quotes about happiness page 22
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: The Powerbook
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Source: Quoted in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad,. Northern women development. [Nigeria]. p, 351. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer
Source: Everything Flows
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Heart of the Matter
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature
“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Colin Dexter (1930–2017) British writer
Source: The Wench Is Dead
Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero
Variant: You named him Fetus? You know in Latin Fetus means happy? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?
Source: The Lost Hero
“I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“They dismissed me as a peasant, I dismissed them as shallow, and we were all happy like that.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Burn for Me
“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”
Aldous Huxley book Point Counter Point
Source: Point Counter Point
“Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.”
David Lee Roth (1954) Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen
“Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.”
Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright
Source: Rent (1996)
Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Source: Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
Dan Savage (1964) American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner
Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist
Source: Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 16<!-- p. 228-->
Source: Brave New World (1932)
Context: I'm interested in truth, I like science. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. … It's curious … to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. They seemed to imagine that it could go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest was secondary and subordinate. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasise from truth and beauty to comfort and hapiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Still, in spite of everything, unrestricted scientific resarch was still permitted. People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were sovereign goods. Right up to the time of the Nine Years' War. That made them change their tune all right. What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled — after the Nine Years' War. People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then. Anything for a quiet life. We've gone on controlling ever since. It hasn't been very good for truth, of course. But it's been very good for happiness. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.
“Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: Bruiser
“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”
Jack Kerouac book Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Rises
“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”
Diane Chamberlain (1950) American writer
Source: The Lost Daughter
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Source: The Selected Poetry
“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Stormie Omartian (1942) American writer
Source: The Power of a Praying Woman
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Source: The BFG
“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Tribute
“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
The Controller, Mustapha Mond, in Ch. 17
Source: Brave New World (1932)
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
“Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.
"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything
Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago
И вот оказалось, что только жизнь, похожая на жизнь окружающих и среди нее бесследно тонущая, есть жизнь настоящая, что счастье обособленное не есть счастье...
As quoted in The Reporter, Volume 19, 1958
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 110
“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Oh Constance, we are so happy.”
Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables
“It's what's inthat makes you happy or unhappy.”
Agatha Christie book A Murder Is Announced
Source: A Murder Is Announced
“Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
As quoted by Ernst Straus in Einstein: A Centenary Volume by A.P. French (1980), p. 32. <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications <br class="br">Variant: "if you want to be a happy man, you should tie your life to a goal, not to other people and not to things." A quote from Ernst Straus' memoir of Einstein in Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives edited by Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (1982), p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=CNuwE3NL1QgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA420#v=onepage&q&f=false
“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
