Happiness Quote by Nikos Kazantzakis

I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

— Claire Holden Rothman

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are…

— John Cowper Powys

Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things…

— Frederick Lenz

Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what…

— Frederick Lenz

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

— George Sand

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

— Luise Rainer

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky,…

— Tony Parsons

I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by…

— Mark Epstein

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

— Iris Murdoch

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our…

— Richard Rohr