Thoughts On Happiness

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Thoughts On Happiness

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn’t something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.

George Matthew Adams

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

--Joseph Addison

We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.

--Henri Frédéric Amiel

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notion unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

--St. Francis of Assisi

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

--Hosea Ballou

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

--James M. Barrie

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

--Georges Bataille

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

--Henry Ward Beecher

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

--Walter Benjamin

Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

--Josh Billings

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.

--Hugh Black

I had always imagined paradise as a kind of library.

--Jorge Luis Borges

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

--Paul Bourget

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

--Fernand Braudel

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

--Emily Bronté

Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

--Hobart Brown

No man, with a man’s heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

--John Mason Brown

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

--Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

--Gelett Burgess

Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are-they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.

--Samuel Butler

We have all sinned and come short of the glory of making ourselves as comfortable as we easily might have done.

--Samuel Butler

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

--Lord Byron

Happiness was born a twin.

--Lord Byron

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness.