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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
Alexander Smith (1830-1867) Scottish poet
One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one had hoped to be.
Francois, duc da La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher, economist
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he will never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American Philosopher
Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
Coleridge
The world would be both better and brighter if we would dwell on the duty of happiness, as well as on the happiness of duty.
Sir J. Lubbock
Happiness consists in being perfectly satisfied which what we have got and with what we haven’t got.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Spurgeon.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
Humboldt.
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from Heaven, at our very doors.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colours.
Horace Mann.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when other share their happiness with them.
Jeremy Taylor.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Byron
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild – goose chase, and is never attained.
Hawthorne.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wise to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu.
Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires.
Augustine.
The strength and the happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which god is going, and going in that way, too.
H.W. Beecher.
Alexander Smith (1830-1867) Scottish poet
One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one had hoped to be.
Francois, duc da La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher, economist
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he will never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American Philosopher
Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz (b.1920) American psychiatrist.
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
Coleridge
The world would be both better and brighter if we would dwell on the duty of happiness, as well as on the happiness of duty.
Sir J. Lubbock
Happiness consists in being perfectly satisfied which what we have got and with what we haven’t got.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Spurgeon.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
Humboldt.
Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from Heaven, at our very doors.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colours.
Horace Mann.
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when other share their happiness with them.
Jeremy Taylor.
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Byron
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild – goose chase, and is never attained.
Hawthorne.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wise to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Montesquieu.
Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires.
Augustine.
The strength and the happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which god is going, and going in that way, too.
H.W. Beecher.
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