HAPPINESS

Related Subjects: Bliss, Cheerfulness, Contentment, Delight, Grief, Joy, Misery, Pleasure, Sorrow

1. All cannot be happy at once for the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
   

2. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.—COLERIDGE, The Friend
   

3. And there is even a happiness
   That makes the heart afraid.—THOMAS HOOD, Ode to Melancholy
   

4. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
   

5. To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?—IBSEN, Ghosts
   

6. The world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as on the Happiness of Duty, for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.—SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, The Pleasures of Life
   

7. Remember this: that very little is needed to make a happy life.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

8. The days that make us happy make us wise.—JOHN MASEFIELD, Biography
   

9. Live while ye may,
   Yet happy pair.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

10. As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
    

11. Happy go lucky.—Proverb
    

12. All worldly happiness consists in opinion.—Proverb
    

13. Glad that I live am I;
    That the sky is blue;
    Glad for the country lanes,
    And the fall of dew.—LIZETTE W. REESE, A Little Song of Life
    

14. Silence is the perfectest herald of Joy;
    I were but little happy, if I could say How much.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

15. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.—BERNARD SHAW, Candida
    

16. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.—BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
    

17. Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
    

18. Why are happy people not afraid of Death, while the insatiable and the unhappy so abhor that grim feature?—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
    

19. That here on earth is no sure happiness.—EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
    

20. The world is so full of a number of things,
    I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.—STEVENSON, Happy Thought
    

21. Happiness is the shadow of things past,
    Which fools still take for that which is to be!—FRANCIS THOMPSON, From the Night of Forebeing
    

22. Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
    Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.—ELLA W. WILCOX, Speech