Quotes About Definition Of Happiness

#1. If our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

Noah Levine

#2. I asked Isabelle whether she was happy. "I never ask myself, so I suppose the answer is yes." At all events she likes the moment of waking up. That seems to me a pretty good definition of happiness! It is the same with me: every morning, when I open my eyes, I smile.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

John F. Kennedy

#4. Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

Julian Gough

#5. If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated.

Herman Koch

#6. Being with you is the only definition of happiness I have.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. Quietness is my definition of happiness.

Hannah More

#8. My definition of happiness is that it's a feeling you get when your body chemistry is producing pleasant sensations in your mind.

Scott Adams

#9. John F. Kennedy once said: 'The definition of happiness is the full use of your powers, along the lines of excellence.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. We kept each other's stare a long time, for we had each done a startling thing, dodged time for an instant - which is the only definition of happiness I know.

Andrew Sean Greer

#11. The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

#12. This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

Tabitha Suzuma

#13. You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

Jackie Kennedy

#14. We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The

Paul David Tripp

#15. The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

Tony Hsieh

#16. I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life?

Michael Dell

#18. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The harmony of the part with the whole may be the best definition of health, beauty, truth, wisdom, morality, and happiness. This

Will Durant

#20. It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Agnes Martin

#21. Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#22. Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [ ... ] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

Alexander Lowen

#23. There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"
I forget where.

Laurence Sterne

#24. There is however no ultimate definition of success but you should understand that whatever you view as your definition of success it should be built on true happiness. Something

Brad Shannon

#25. The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural.

Robert Bridges

#26. Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your inside with your outside, that's what you should spend your time doing.

G.G. Renee Hill

#27. Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Phil McGraw

#28. Happiness takes effort. You have to make yourself available to happiness. That is probably the best definition of faith that I can come up with.

Everett Peacock

#29. To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

Sarah Jio