The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

—Jean Houston

About Jean Houston

Jean Houston (May 10, 1937 – May 16, 2026) was an American author involved in the human potential movement. Along with her husband, Robert Masters, she co-founded the Foundation for Mind Research.

More quotations from Jean Houston

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

—Jean Houston

More quotations tagged with “happiness”

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

—James Oppenheim

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

—J. D. Salinger

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

—Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

—George Bernard Shaw

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

—Eddie Cantor

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11 Jul 2015 Added