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No two men are alike, and both of them are happy for it.

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.