happiness on Unhappiness

One way to be unhappy is to lack what you most want. Another is to get all you could possibly want and discover that everything is never enough.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy wor...

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

One of happiness’s many paradoxes is that you don’t get happy by aiming at happiness but by leading a life worth living.

If I could just come down on that telling phrase – God wants us to be happy… but God doesn’t want us to be happy. God wants joy for us. But joy is something rather different from happiness. Joy is s...

Obviously there’s a lot of good things about societal and technological progress, and in a lot of ways our lives are much easier than, say, our grandparents’ or great-grandparents’ lives. But there’s ...

Let me be clear, nobody is happy all the time. In fact, to be happy all the time is indicative of a disorder.

Happiness is a place between too little and too much.

People shoot for happiness, but they often feel empty, alone, and without meaning…People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering…Happiness wants you to think about maximizing your benefi...

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go

People shoot for happiness, but they often feel empty, alone, and without meaning…People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering…Happiness wants you to think about maximizing your benefi...

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without reservation or regret.

It’s hard to tell what brings happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

We aim for happiness but we settle for pleasure…which is only momentary.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Ruut Veenhoven, the Dutch sociologist known as the “godfather of happiness research,” maintains the World Database of Happiness. And when he looked at all the countries of the world in terms of happin...

The oft-used front door to happiness is the one described by the advertising companies: acquire, retire, and aspire to drive faster, dress trendier, and drink more. Happiness depends on what you hang ...

Not only are my possessions not bringing happiness into my life; even worse, they are actually distracting me from the things that do!

There is no man upon the earth who isn’t earnestly seeking after happiness, and it appears abundantly by the variety of ways they so vigorously seek it; they will twist and turn every way, ply all ins...

Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy. Happiness escapes us until we understand why we should be happy, change our perspective, and develop habits of happiness.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.

Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

What do you think would make you happier? Take a moment to consider. Might it be . . . A relationship? More flexibility at work? A new job that better provides for you and your family? An extra bedroo...

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he ...

Money won’t buy you happiness, but it will pay for the search.

Morality or duty . . . never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.