It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
— Gretchen Rubin
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the 'Moment of Happiness,' my daily emails of happiness quotes.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
— Greg Anderson
Happiness cannot have boundaries.
— Govinda
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
— Gore Vidal
I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.
— Goldie Hawn
Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.
— Glenn Gould
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
— Gisele Bundchen
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
— Giorgio Armani
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
— Giacomo Casanova
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
— Gertrude Jekyll
Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about.
— Gerard Malanga
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
— George Washington
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
— George Santayana
If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers in the recycling, scan and toss a letter. Ever since I wrote about this rule in 'The Happiness Project,' I've been amazed by how many people have told me that it has made a huge difference in their lives.
During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies.
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.
Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
— Graham Greene
Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay.
You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
— Glenn Beck
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.
— Ginger Rogers
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
— Gherman Titov
Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.
— Gertrude B. Elion
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
— Georges Bataille
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
— Gregg Easterbrook
I've had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn't my job. Half the secret of happiness, I'm ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It's been a blessed life.
— Graeme Base
Laughter is beyond truth - the ultimate happiness.
What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
— Godfrey Reggio
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
— Glen Hansard
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
— Giraldus Cambrensis
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
— Gilbert Murray
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
— Gertrude Stein
My happiest time was with Paraguay. Those were five years in which I managed to find happiness.
— Gerardo Martino
Happiness lies first of all in health.
— George William Curtis
Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.
— George Takei
