Happiness Set Point

Famous quotes containing the words happiness, set and/or point:

“As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

“Early, as well as late,
Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers;”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

“As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there’s no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better—but you keep working anyway.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)