Quotes about Happiness

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments

For we that live to please must please to live.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.