Desire Quote by Marcus Aurelius

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of…

— Saint Augustine

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.

— Daniel Goldstein

Even the happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced…

— Carl Jung

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

— Daniel Gilbert

“First of all, don’t ever let them try to define that word “happiness” for themselves. They can’t and that’s precisely what we never want…

— Geoffrey Wood

“And actually, the word "happiness" translates as bonheur in French, which literally means "a good hour" or "good time". It's something you experience.”

— Jamie Cat Callan

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of…

— Anonymous

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Time passed in brewing tea, the odd remark, cigarettes, then dawn came up. The widening light caught the plumage of quails and partridges...and quickly…

— Nicolas Bouvier

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also…

— Martin Seligman

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

— Anonymous