Happiness and Joy

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Change in all things is sweet.

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination ?

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation .

Let your joy be unconfined!

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him .

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.