Veenhoven Happiness Quotes & Sayings

Ruut Veenhoven, keeper of the database, got it right when he said: "Happiness requires livable conditions, but not paradise." We humans are imminently adaptable. We survived an Ice Age. We can survive anything. We find happiness in a variety of places and, as the residents of frumpy Slough demonstrated, places can change. Any atlas of bliss must be etched in pencil. — Eric Weiner

I wanted to make a name for myself. — Katie Cassidy

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future. — Archibald Marwizi

Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility. — Yukito Kishiro

The man's oral skills were off the chart. Such attention to detail. And the enthusiasm - the man was starving and I was his meal. — Anonymous

It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer. — Neil Diamond

Weird is good, strange is bad. — Cinda Williams Chima

Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy about it. And so they go on. — Alan Bennett

Harriet said, "You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter."
"Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories?"
"Because it watn's hers," said Harriet. "It was a library copy."
"Stroke of luck for the ratepaers of the City of Westminster," he said, grinning. — Jill Paton Walsh

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more. — William Shenstone

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree. — Mark Leibovich

The things we once thought of as luxuries soon become necessities (although, by the same token, our sense of well-being would quickly adapt to losing half our income). What we care about is not our absolute wealth but our rung on the ladder. Ruut Veenhoven, a leading researcher of happiness, says, "When we have overtaken the Joneses, our reference drifts upward to the Smiths, and we feel unhappy again. — Simon Kuper

I like eating; I like going to restaurants and trying new things. — Prince Royce