Quotes About Happiness

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

below the hopelessness is faith, under the sorrow is joy, and beneath the spastic pelvic floor is the genital apparatus and the way to freedom.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Most diaries are moans in writing, even when the person writing them is happy.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,And make two lovers happy.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep.

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

The fool is happy that he knows no more

How happy he, who free from care The rage of courts, and noise of towns; Contented breathes his native air, In his own grounds

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale! Dimentica del mondo, dal mondo dimenticata. Infinita letizia della mente candida! Accettata ogni preghiera e rinunciato a ogni desiderio.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

And grant the bad what happiness they would / One they must want, which is to pass for good.

Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth." [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]