Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
The will of man is his happiness.
Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then, To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
. . . the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
At rare moments in history, by a series of accidents never to be repeated, arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount, hedonistic, mindless, intent upon the glorious physical instant.
Man is that he might have joy.