#happines

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#affairs #after #be happy #challenge #chiefly

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. ↗

— Prem Rawat

#happiness #lies #own #treasure #within

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#greatest #greatest happiness #greatest number #happiness #legislation

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#between #defined #difference #expectations #our

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#excited #happiness #i #important #important ways

Blame is the creed of the disempowered. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#creed #disempowered #happiness #inspirational #life

The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply undoing a previous change. They concluded that the increases in worker productivity were not due to better lighting or better pay or longer breaks per se. They were just temporary improvements caused by a change in routine. ↗

— Hal Herzog

#psychology #science #change

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#colors #future #general #good #happiness

What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content. ↗

— Rachel Dickinson

#contentment #happiness #happy #lesson #money

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#convinced #deeply #does #exist #happiness