Quotes about Happiness

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

When the sun shines in Britain there's no finer place on Earth.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

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

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.