Quotes on Happiness

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.