Happiness Measured Quotes

#1. So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Polly Toynbee

#4. Nothing important in this world is measured by grades. Intelligence, character, integrity, success, happiness - do you want these things, or do you want to struggle with the arbitrary difference between an A minus and a B plus?

Ryan Quinn

#5. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held dear. It's cast off without any thought whatsoever. But happiness, victory, and life are sacred because they are fleeting and stingily measured.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.

Walter Lippmann

#8. Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

Johnny Depp

#9. Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.

Tommy James

#11. Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

Swami Vivekananda

#12. Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.

Jean Houston

#13. Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#14. This universe is ocean of happiness where distance is measured in Smiles Per Hour; more the mileage more the happiness.

Vikrmn

#15. Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#16. ... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

Bethany Brookbank

#17. My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

Michelle Obama

#18. I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.

Sayed Badreya

#19. Happiness can be measured by each heartbeat.

Craig Smedley

#20. Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#21. To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

Rajneesh

#22. Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?

Haruki Murakami

#23. Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#24. The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

Helen Keller

#25. Success is measured by personal happiness.

Usher

#26. Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away.

Debasish Mridha

#27. But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.

Holly Madison

#28. Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?

Don Swann II

#29. A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Happiness is not something that can not be precisely measured, discussed in plebiscites or analyzed by specialists. We Don't even ask what kind of car someone drives, let alone so personal and impossible to define.

Paulo Coelho

#31. It was the ruling King of Bhutan himself who, in the 1980s, set up a system that measured national advancement according to Gross National Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product.

David Michie

#32. The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

Enrique Penalosa

#33. My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, ... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH ...

Veronica Franco

#34. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.

Debasish Mridha