Consciousness Quote by Herbert Marcuse

Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius…

— Walter Russell

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

— Samuel Johnson

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

— Vittorio Alfieri

“All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of their mind.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

— George Sand

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of…

— William Wordsworth

Joy is the reflex of terror.

— Victor Hugo

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.

— Michael Beckwith

Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.

— Laurel Mellin

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find…

— Rollo May