Quotes on Happiness

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.