Happiness and Joy

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him .

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

It’s a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

The best of healers is good cheer.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.

Keep your face always towards the sunshine—and the shadows will fall behind you.