Duration Quote by Andre Maurois

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great…

— Frederick Lenz

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

— Dalai Lama

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

— Alice Meynell

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and…

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are…

— John Cowper Powys

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

— Dalai Lama

Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes…

— Gretchen Bleiler

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through…

— Tara Stiles

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at…

— August Strindberg

You, not events, have the power to make you happy or unhappy .. At the end of the day, it is you who choose…

— Senoraroy

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the…

— Yehuda Berg

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi