Quotes of: Happy-people Keyword

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Dale Carnegie

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Daniel Kahneman

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Daniel Keys Moran

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Ethel Percy Andrus

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Eleonora Duse

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Georges Bataille

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Herman Hesse

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Herman Hesse

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

Helen McCrory

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

James Altucher

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

Julian Baggini

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

Jilly Cooper

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. B. Priestley