Happiness Quotes
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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If the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
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If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
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If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.
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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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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 colors.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
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It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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