Born Quote by Charlotte Bronte

“It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for…

— Charlotte Brontë

I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we…

— Barbara Johnson

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on…

— Albert Ellis

“Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and…

— Anthony de Mello

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility…

— Lin Yutang

The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy…

— Frederick Lenz

Happiness is a perception of your own reality. There are many people around the world who barely have the basic necessities to survive, who…

— John Reyes

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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