Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own […]
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Colton, Charles C.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Frost, Robert
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity’s sun rise. Blake, William
I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. Huxley, Aldous
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. Mill, John Stuart
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Russell, Bertrand
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. Akhenaton
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. St. Augustine
It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. Marquis, Don
