Happiness Quote by Marcel Proust

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

— Madeleine L'Engle

People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.

— Frederick Lenz

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

— Richard Gere

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

— Anna Torv

Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their…

— Frederick Lenz

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at…

— Julia Cameron

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy,…

— Thomas Huxley

Some people aren't happy because they've given up on the things that could make them happy.

— Sonya Parker

Nobody can be happy all the time, and if you aim to be, ultimately you will never be happy.

— Lady Colin Campbell

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives…

— Anatole France

It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.

— Jack Nicholson