Happiness and Joy

The frog’s life is most jolly, my lads; he has no care Who shall fill up his cup; for he has drink enough to spare.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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

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

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try to prepare one’s self to do without it.

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.

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

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

No man is happy, he is at best fortunate.

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

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Life must be lived as play.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The best of healers is good cheer.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

No one is happy all his life long.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.