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Quotes About Happiness

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
~ Walter Savage Landor
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
~ Walter Savage Landor
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
~ Walter Savage Landor
A mother's pride, a father's joy.
~ Walter Scott
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
~ Walter Scott
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
~ Walter Scott
Aller werdekeit ein füegerinne daz sît ir zewâre, frowe Mâze. ein sælig man, der iuwer lêre hât!
~ Walther von der Vogelweide
They are all matters of opinion, and taken up voluntarily because it seems right to do so. This error, as the root of all evils, philosophy promises to eradicate utterly. Let us therefore devote ourselves to its cultivation and submit to being cured; for so long as these evils possess us, not only can we not be happy, we cannot even be right in our minds.
~ Ward Farnsworth
He who has need of riches feels fear on their account. But no man enjoys a blessing that brings anxiety. He is always trying to add a little more. While he puzzles over increasing his wealth, he forgets how to use it.
~ Ward Farnsworth
Roko Belic, who believes that "gratitude is a shortcut to happiness.
~ Warren Berger
But the happiest people he encountered —including some living extremely modestly—had a strong connection to those around them. "They laughed and really enjoyed being around the people they love.
~ Warren Berger
In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
~ Warren Buffet
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
~ Warren Buffett
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
~ Warren Buffett
There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
~ Warren Buffett
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also, I am Batman.
~ Warren Ellis
I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
~ Warren Mitchell
That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
~ Washington Irving
The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.
~ Washington Irving
Digamos que el pobre maestro hubiera podido disfrutar por mucho tiempo de una existencia plácida y feliz, ... de no haberse cruzado en su camino la criatura que más turbaciones causa en la existencia del hombre, mayores aún que cualesquiera espectros, demonios y brujos juntos: una mujer.
~ Washington Irving
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
~ Washington Irving
How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
~ Washington Irving
He keeps up the rustic revels . . . and,, above all, keeps the 'merry night,' as it is termed, at Christmas.
~ Washington Irving