Quotes about Happiness

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth or beauty that mattered. Happiness has got to be paid for. It hasn't been very good for truth of course. But it's been very good for happiness.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

When captured and brought to trial, many of those who had taken part in the Sabbath resolutely refused, even under torture, even at the stake, to abjure the religion which had brought them so much happiness.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.