Quotes about Happiness

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.

Far away a bell tolls, but not for death. There are bells that ring for life. A leaf falls, from joy. Oh, I am in love with life!

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

The highest dream we could ever dream, the wish that if granted would make us happier than any other blessing, is to know God, to actually experience Him. The problem is that we don't believe this idea is true. We assent to it in our heads. But we don't feel it in our hearts.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!