Quotes About Happiness

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

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.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Men die and they are not happy.

The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.