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Quotes About Happiness

I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
~ Arthur Rubinstein
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.
~ Boethius
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
~ Albert Camus
Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.
~ Charles Buxton
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
When someone does something well, applaud I You will make two people happy.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
~ George Matthew Adams
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
~ Clark Gable
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
~ Gertrude Stein
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad.
~ Bible
It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
~ Don Marquis
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
~ Josh Billings
Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.
~ Myrtle Reed
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form ... happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~ Charles L. Morgan
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
~ Anonymous
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast
~ George Edward Herbert
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
~ James Russell Lowell
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
~ William Thackeray
A wise son maketh a glad father.
~ Bible
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
~ Walter Scott