Quotes on Happiness

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.