Quotes About Happiness

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

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

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.