Quotes About Happiness

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child.

The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.

Greed lessens what is gathered.

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

At rare moments in history, by a series of accidents never to be repeated, arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount, hedonistic, mindless, intent upon the glorious physical instant.

Man is that he might have joy.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.