Happiness and Joy

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.

Happiness . . . is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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

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.

JUST LIVING IS NOT ENOUGH… ONE MUST HAVE SUNSHINE, FREEDOM, AND A LITTLE FLOWER.

GOOD APPLE PIES ARE A CONSIDERABLE PART OF OUR DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

YOUTH SMILES WITHOUT ANY REASON. IT IS ONE OF ITS CHIEFEST CHARMS.

May you live all the days of your life.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Happiness is finding two olives in your martini when you're hungry.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.