The world is full of happy people, but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get into the papers - from A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton-Porter http://www.gratefulness.org/gratefulnews/index.htm
The world is full of happy people, but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get into the papers - from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
The widespread loss of a sense of transcendence lies at the root of our current anxiety about happiness,http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4759…
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness - Eric Hoffer
The major preoccupations of our time are happiness, love, friendship and respect - Theodore Zeldin
The individual pursuit of happiness as defined by consumer culture still absorbs much of our time and energy, or else the threat of being shut out of this pursuit through poverty, unemployment, incapacity galvanises our efforts . . . and yet the sense that there is something more presses in. Great numbers of people feel it: in moments of reflection about their life; in moments of relaxation in nature; in moments of bereavement and loss; and quite wildly and unpredictably - Charles Taylor
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet, critic
The happiest people were not those who pursued happiness, the wealthiest men were not the most materialistic: the great painting was not the most faithful representation - John Kay, http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/07/legitimising_rhetoricn…
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from domination of outside conditions - Robert Louis Stevenson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things -- Epictetus