Quotes About Happiness

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

And for a while they were happy in their own manner; they had the animal confidence money affords.

Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.

Douglas Preston

It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being more or less happy. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true—from ourselves to the world.

There's no way to become happy. We simply need to stop doing the things that make us unhappy.

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

People often grudge others when they cannot enjoy themselves.

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

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