Circumstances Quote by John Burroughs

“Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.”

— Pope Francis

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Still, happiness will depend on conditions favoring it. Lose those conditions and you lose your happiness. So, if your ability to affect happiness is…

— Bikram Dhillon

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in…

— Dean Koontz

“The pursuit of happiness undeniably includes the pursuit of material well-being: minimally, being able to secure basic necessities. It can be overwhelming to consider…

— Matthew Desmond

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing…

— John Dewey

Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that…

— Matthieu Ricard

Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

— Chris Prentiss

“happiness comes from the same thing: caring about something greater than yourself, believing that you are a contributing component in some much larger entity,…

— Mark Manson

“A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might have been…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison…

— Newell Dwight Hillis