Absorption Quote by Valerie Solanas

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

— Theodor Reik

“A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness…

— Lao Tzu

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when…

— Joseph Priestley

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement.…

— Theodor Reik

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

— John Oliver Hobbes

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they…

— Paul Brunton

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

— Everett Ruess

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life…

— Bertrand Russell

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

— James Cagney

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little…

— Samuel Johnson

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what…

— Joe Tichio

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

— Margery Allingham