George William Curtis Quotes

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

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.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

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?

I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

Happy! That is indefinable as far as states of being go.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

When you stop being afraid you feel good

Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

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

Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

The happy have whole days.

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.

Love with life is heaven; and life, unloving, hell.