“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

— Aldous Huxley, "Distractions I", in Vedanta for the Western World (1945)

About Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963

English writer, author of "Brave New World".

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it.”