Happiness and Joy

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.