Quotes About Happiness

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

He has enough who is contented with little.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter, and the love of friends.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

Forget your woes when you see your friend.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world, we must do something.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.