Happiness Quotes

“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.”

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”

“Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.”

“HAPPINESS.—A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.”

“The trick is to live your happiness, with a joyful daily awareness, not just recognize it years later, as a wistful memory.”

“Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.”

“No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it.”

“[T]he beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart... life still called to her with many insistent voices.”

“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.”