Happiness and Joy

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

A good time was had by all.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Our sincerest laughter

Teach me half the gladness

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

The song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Boredom is … a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

Not to admire, is all the art I know,

The learn’d is happy nature to explore,

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

FIRE . God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and scholars. Certainty. Certainty. Feeling. Joy. Peace.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A paradise within thee, happier far.

Nods, and becks, and wreathèd smiles.

Come, and trip it as ye go