More quotations tagged with “happiness”
Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water.
—Gretchen Rubin in Happier at Home
I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change.
—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
—George Burns
I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest.
—Laurie Halse Anderson in Wintergirls
I cried at first… and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.
—Frances Noyes Hart