Quotes About Happiness

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

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.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt

Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.

For we that live to please must please to live.

How small, of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,Our own felicity we make or find.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.