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Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Agamemnon (928)
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Agamemnon (928)
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'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was bent, and his gait was slow,
His long thin hair was white as snow,
But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.
And he sang every night as he went to bed,
"Let us be happy down here below:
The living should live, though the dead be dead."
Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
Author: George Arnold
Source: The Jolly Old Pedagogue
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Fair Maid of the Inn (act I, sc. 1, l. 250)
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
[Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]
Author: Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction)
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Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and
legislation.
Author: Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction)
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Author: Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction)
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten
lost.
Author: Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction)
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What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et
libertate contentum negligere humana?]
Author: Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria
Source: Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction)
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Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water!
Ye happy mixture of more happy days!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Beppo (st. 80)
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. . . all who joy would win
Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 172)
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There comes
For ever something between us and what
We deem our happiness.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and
the life he leads?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)
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What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?
[Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?]
Author: Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
Source: Carmina (LXII, 30)
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The message from the hedge-leaves,
Heed it, whoso thou art;
Under lowly eaves
Lives the happy heart.
Author: John Vance Cheney
Source: The Hedge-bird's Message
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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Natura Deorum (I, 20)
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
[Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Notes par Rochefoucauld
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If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our bliss must flow,
And that dear hut,--our home.
Author: Nathaniel Cotton
Source: The Fireside
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Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Table Talk (l. 246)
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Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 41)
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He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper
into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace.
He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and
help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more
happiness than one man can bear.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 41)
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 41)
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Distichs
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft
Ermattet endlich.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 5, 9)
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Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Author: George Sheehan
Source: None
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Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are
Author: John B. Sheerin
Source: None
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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
Author: William H. Sheldon
Source: None
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
Source: None
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Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.
Author: E. R. Stettinius, Jr.
Source: None
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Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is not given but exchanged.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is not always measured in smiles.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is acceptance.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Author: J. Donald Walters
Source: None
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Happiness is an inside job.
Author: William Arthur Ward
Source: None
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Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.
Author: Greg Webster
Source: None
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Happiness is being married to your best friend.
Author: Barbara Weeks
Source: None
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