Happiness Quote by Eric Weiner

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again.…

— Anonymous

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But…

— Viktor E. Frankl

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't…

— Bret Easton Ellis

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

— Andrew Weil

“As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

— David Henry Hwang

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens…

— Eric G. Wilson

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But…

— Viktor E. Frankl

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

— Dan Savage

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes…

— Malcolm Muggeridge