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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

— Thomas Szasz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

— Ayn Rand

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

— Bar Refaeli

Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

— William S. Burroughs

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

— Storm Jameson

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.

— Jeffrey Wright

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

— J. Donald Walters

✗Opposing Perspectives

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

— Polly Toynbee

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

— Iris Murdoch