Affection Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it…

— Jose Saramago

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add…

— Roger Ebert

Happiness does not depend on what happens to us, but on how we react to what happens to us.

— Dada JP Vaswani

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for…

— William Morris

Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.

— Nhat Hanh

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

— Eric Gill

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those…

— Dawn Fraser

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

— Henry Van Dyke

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the…

— Kevin Griffin

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out…

— Sigmund Freud

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

— Anatole France

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

— Dean Karnazes