Quotes on Happiness

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

By changing nothing, nothing changes.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.