Quotes About Life

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

We are the architects of our own happiness

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.