Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

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

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

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

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

To be happy - that's all that matters.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Better to be happy than wise.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

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.

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Happiness is so rarely a part of my vocabulary, because for me it's so fleeting

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

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

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?

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