Quotes About Happiness

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day, for it is life, the very life of life.

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight!

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in the country.

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

It is wealth to be content.