Famous Quotes About happiness

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.