Quotes About Happiness

Quién ha vivido un solo día en completa felicidad, sin verse sacudido por la conciencia, la ira, el deseo, la envidia, el orgullo, la pasión, el daño o por alguna especie de temor?

El más sabio de todos es el que no se preocupa ni pizca de que alguien sea más rico que él.»

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

Hard is his herte that loveth nought   85 In May, whan al this mirth is wrought;

But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

Be cheerful, my brother! he said. You're alive, and you're with friends!

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

why is it that the people who know how to enjoy themselves never have any money and the people who have money never know how to enjoy themselves?

My experience is that one's pleasures don't bear thinking about.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!

I believe if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring much needed peace and happiness. I have studied him - the man and in my opinion is far from being an anti–Christ. He must be called the Savior of Humanity. I have prophesied about the faith of Mohammad that it would be acceptable the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.

Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.