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Quotes About Happiness

I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
~ Mark Twain, 1906
I wish I were a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum. 'Cuz how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum?
~ Author Unknown
It's Friday o'clock!
~ Internet meme
Friday, wahoo, full of glee! Fridays are fun & carefree— for second cups of coffee or a delicious donut spree!
~ Terri Guillemets
And it is in games that many men discover their paradise.
~ Robert Lynd
There are many ways of doing good, such as little deeds of kindness, little words of encouragement and affection. By these gifts which are not bought with gold or silver, we can make others happy; not only at Christmas, but all year. If we made a practice of giving such gifts every day would be Christmas...
~ Frederick A. Reuter
Eat glitter for breakfast and shine all day.
~ Internet meme, c. 2014
Glitter makes everything better.
~ Internet meme, c. 2010
There is plenty of happiness in this life if we only knew it: and one way to find it is, when we have got the old rheumatism to thank Heaven that it ain't the old gout.
~ Josh Billings
I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It's the liniment working.
~ Author Unknown
Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...?
~ Author unknown, c.1949
Every day, spread the magical stardust of thankfulness into your life.
~ Terri Guillemets
Love stabs at loss with pangs of past happiness.
~ Terri Guillemets
...the only possible good in the universe is happiness. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to try and make somebody else so.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll, 1888
Happiness is always a by-product. It never comes to those who concentrate on securing it... It always comes as a result of something else. The pursuit of noble things, the things essentially worth while... As a man goes on life's journey, with a brave heart, doing the best he can... he often hears the faint flutter of invisible wings, he feels a presence, a companion. It is Happiness.
~ Chicago Herald, c. 1917
Tucker seemed too happy to smile, his expression solemn and prayerful.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Franklin smiled benevolently at the questioner, and quickly, blandly, he replied, "My friend, the Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself!"
~ Author unknown, 1950s
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
~ Author Unknown
Happiness is breathlessly chasing you.
~ Terri Guillemets
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world; some people go through life creaking.
~ Friendly Calendar, 1911
There is no way to peace; peace is the way. There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. If you are determined, you can do it with your breathing.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds.
~ Madame de Luzy
...the question isn't whether you're happy or unhappy but alive or dead.
~ James Baldwin
So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some; and it is the truth that most people possess more than they realize, for we know how pathetically often loss reveals what a great quantity has been possessed but not realized.
~ Booth Tarkington, c. 1926