Quotes about Happiness

The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.