Happiness Quotes

“Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.”

“She is leading what she calls "an ideal life," — painting, music, love, and the world shut out.”

“Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as colour is to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labour, or erring habits of life.”

“Happify. — To please.”

“Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.”

“With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while.”

“If yu ever find happiness bi hunting for it, yu will find it, az the old woman did the spektakles she had lost, safe on her own noze all the time.”

“It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.”

“Cultivate the art of jollying yourself!”

“Before we set our Hearts too much upon any Thing, let us examine how happy those are, who already possess it.”

“He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

“[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.”