Ayn
Rand:
Happiness is a state of consciousness which proceeds
from the achievement of one's values.
Bertha
Damon:
Getting what you go after is success; but liking it
while you are getting it is happiness.
Bette
Davis:
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want
it at the expense of everything else.
Carolyn
Wells:
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Daphne
du Maurier:
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is
a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Fanny
Burney:
How little has situation to do with happiness!
George
Sand:
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
Helen
Keller:
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes
real happiness. It is not obtained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen
Keller:
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing
it.
Helen
Keller:
When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but we look so long at the closed door that we do
not see the one which has been opened for us.
Marcelene
Cox:
The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard
for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.
Margaret
Lee Runbeck:
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner
of traveling.
Mary
Adams:
Happiness is a tide:
it carries you only a little way at a time;
but you have covered a vast space before you know
that you are moving at all.
Susan
Isaacs:
The only people who are truly happy are the people
we do not know very well.
Willa
Cather:
What is happiness; to be dissolved into something
complete and great.
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