Happiness Quotes

• "The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."
  By: John Heywood, Be Merry Friends
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• "That happiness does still the longest thrive where joys and griefs have turns alternative."
  By: Robert Herrick
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• "There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it."
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• "God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself."
  By: Joseph Hall
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• "He who is good is happy."
  By: William Habington (Habbington)
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• "It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness--temporal, spiritual and eternal--consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases."
  By: Madame Guyon
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• "Happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."
  By: John Gunther
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• "Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears."
  By: Maurice Guerin (Georges-Maurice de Guerin)
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• "Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and a stagnant pool."
  By: John Mason Good, The Book of Nature (series III, lecture VII)
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• "Still to ourselves in every place consign'd Our own felicity to make or find."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 431)
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• "The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft Ermattet endlich.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 5, 9)
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• "Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Distichs
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• "Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."
  By: Lillian Gish
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• "Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element."
  By: Henry Giles
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