American Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again.…

— Anonymous

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...

— Emilie du Chatelet

Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an erroneous concept…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be…

— George Santayana

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

— Jack White

“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love…

— George Sand

“We have an innate sensibility for being content,feeling joyful, and living in happiness without conditions. Happiness is a natural condition of existence.”

— Ilchi Lee

In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.

— Abraham Maslow

“We are not in pursuit of happiness; we are searching for a reason to be happy. That reason gives meaning to life, and that…

— Dr. Farid Mostamand

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

— Malcolm Gladwell