What the Heck is Happiness?

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
–Mahatma Gandhi

“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
–George Sand

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
–Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is making your dreams come true.”
— Jourdan Dunn

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
— Hermann Hesse

“Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.”
— Saina Nehwal

“When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.”
— Daniel Kahneman

“Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.”
— Chip Conley

“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. ‘
— Philip Sidney

“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”
— Doug Larson

“The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do.”
–Ring Lardner

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
–Sigmund Freud

“It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.”
— Taraji P. Henson

“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
— Victor Hugo

“Life itself is the proper binge.”
— Julia Child

“Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind’s fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.”
— Ayn Rand