All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

“And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”

“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”

“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”