Quotes About Happiness

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

I don't need a man. I'm really happy with myself and being with my friends.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.