Quotes About Happiness

One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. (Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé.)

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess.

smile first, then speak.

He valued these experiences of joy more than anything else he had known, and he desired, as all who have experienced them desire, to have them again and again. It was this mystical quality that set him apart from other boys. He was surprised by joy. He spent the rest of his life searching for more of it.

a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.

Baby fall into my kiss It should just happen like this... ....drink up this love....

Live's not the breathes you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.