Quotes About Happiness

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

God is so good. He knows where a person will be happy, where they can love and be loved, where heaven on earth is. Now I know why he put me near you.

Back then I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world, then I looked at you and smiled. Why? Because no matter how unlucky I was, it was worth it because of you.

I wish I had never known you. I was happy before even when you were not there yet. Unlike now, you make me suffer, I know that you didn't mean to have known me. Me too, I wasn't planning on loving you.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Indeed, nothing is more critically connected to happiness?both our own and that of our children?than how well we love and support one another within the family.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul.