Happiness Quotations | Page 7

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production.

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.