Meaning of Happiness - Some quotations

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief

happiness which this world affords.

--Samuel Johnson

 

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue

happiness you'll never find it.

--C.P. Snow

 

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for

happiness.

--Mary Wollstonecraft

 

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each

believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of

obtaining it for himself.

--Samuel Johnson

 

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,

something to love, and something to hope for.

--Joseph Addison Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson

(editor)

 

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness

consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning

of life.

--Albert Camus (1913-1960)

 

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By

being happy, we sow enormous benefits upon the world.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

--Robert Frost

 

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to

be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

--Robert G. Ingersoll

 

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed,

from domination of outside conditions.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

 

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of

creating things new.

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

--Sophocles

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder