Introducing Happiness Quotes

“There may indeed be more to life than a pot of cheese, a garden, a few friends; but these things, at least, may be a pretty good start.”
― Will Buckingham, Introducing Happiness: A Practical Guide

“It was George Bernard Shaw who famously said that you should not do to others as you would wish to be done to - the famous 'golden rule' of moral philosophy - because they might have other tastes.”
― Will Buckingham, Introducing Happiness: A Practical Guide

“What causes all the trouble is our attempt to get somewhere, our attempt to do something, our attempt to use our life usefully, to attain to particular goals.”
― Will Buckingham, A Practical Guide to Happiness: Think Deeply and Flourish

“The most important lesson we can draw from this, of course, is that it's best, if at all possible, not to become romantically involved with philosophers.”
― Will Buckingham, Introducing Happiness: A Practical Guide

“Imagine a race transported to a Utopia where everything grows of its own accord and turkeys fly around ready-roasted, where lovers find one another without any delay and keep one another without any difficulty: in such a place some men would die of boredom or hang themselves, some would fight and kill one another, and thus they would create for themselves more suffering than nature inflicts on them as it is.”
― Will Buckingham, A Practical Guide to Happiness: Think Deeply and Flourish

“Can you imagine how useful it has been to me to have attained uselessness?”
― Will Buckingham, A Practical Guide to Happiness: Think Deeply and Flourish