Quotes About Happiness

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!

Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.