Happiness Quotes

“The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”

“To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.”

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

“As merry as the day is long.”

“Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker”

“Life is a festival only to the wise.”

“A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.”

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things.”

“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”

“Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.”

“To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.”

“[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.”

“Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.”

“Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.”

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends”

“Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.”

“My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”