Helena Norberg-Hodge Quotes

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

I'm happy in my life.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

Happiness is no laughing matter.