Eric Weiner Quotes

Happiness is a privilege.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

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

I'd rather have happiness than money.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

Happiness is a state of activity.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

What I've also noticed is the term happiness, or happy is intimidating to some people. Some people deny that it's even possible to be happy, or to achieve happiness. Happiness sounds like this magical destination that you arrive at and then everything is sort of solved, or it's different.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.