When you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
Tag: Quotes on Happiness
What was happiness but an extravagance …
What was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
I have always believed that each …
I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
– from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Happy people love people, use things …
Happy people love people, use things, and worship the divine; unhappy people use people, love things, and worship themselves.
– from The 5 Types of Wealth book by Sahil Bloom
People universally tend to think that …
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
– from Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert