Quotes About Happiness

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending.

People are always in good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable.

Can anyone do much for anyone else unless by making a will in his favour and dying then and there? Should not each look after his own happiness, and will not the world be best carried on if everyone minds his own business and leaves other people to mind theirs?

To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not.

A man at five and thirty should no more regret not having had a happier childhood than he should regret not having been born a prince of the blood.

the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it — and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. If

Some people say that their school days were the happiest of their lives. They may be right, but I always look with suspicion upon those whom I hear saying this. It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable. As

Let it suffice that George Pontifex did not consider himself fortunate, and he who does not consider himself fortunate is unfortunate.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

T]hough I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.

Inexorable etrangete! D'une vie mal defendue, rouler jusqu'aux des vifs du bonheur. How inexorably strange! In this shaky life, to throw even the quick dice of happiness. -Rene Char

The secret of happiness. Those dancing kiddies have got it. I want it. I want to know what makes 'em so happy.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw be