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Happiness

Positive emotional state
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Happiness is an emotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction. As a state and a subject, it has been pursued and commented on extensively throughout world history.

The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously. ~ Tom Robbins

Quotes

 
You rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself. ~ Dinah Craik
 
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
 
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy.  If you are cruel you are unhappy.  And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back. ~ Cary Grant
 
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally... ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government, ~ Thomas Jefferson
 
All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 
I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 
Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
 
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. ~ José Martí
 
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. ~ Christopher Morley
 
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~ William Saroyan
 
Happiness is the truth. ~ Pharrell Williams
  • Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
  • To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn (licensed 22 January 1626; 1647), Act I, scene 1, line 250.
  • Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-da
    If you're not greedy, you will go far
    You will live in happiness too
    Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do.
  • Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.
    • John Buchan, A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Chapter I.
  • Happiness lies in the fulfilment of the spirit through the body.
  • Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
    Less on exterior things than most suppose.
  • It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time — and they feel that you are trying — to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.
    • Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10.
  • Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
    • Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10.
  • I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.
    • Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10.
  • Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.
    • Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10.
  • The only way to make people good, is to make them happy.
    • Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 11.
  • Happy is the man that has not walked in the counsel of the wicked ones, And in the way of sinners has not stood, And in the seat of ridiculers has not sat. But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, And in his law he reads in an undertone day and night. And he will certainly become like a tree planted by streams of water, That gives its own fruit in its season And the foliage of which does not wither, And everything he does will succeed. The wicked are not like that, But are like the chaff that the wind drives away.
  • Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.
    • E. M. Forster, Selected Letters: Letter 216, to Florence Barger, 11 February 1922.
  • Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
    • Mahatma Gandhi, as quoted in Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids (1998) by Joseph A. Michelli, p. 88.
  • Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
    Our own felicity to make or find.
  • Freud's prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.
  • 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. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
  • The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object, of his being.
    • David Hume, "The Stoic", Essays, Moral, Political and Literary, part 1, essay 16, in The Philosophical Works of David Hume (1826), vol. 3, p. 167.
  • Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
  • Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.
  • Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.
    • Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Page (July 15, 1763); in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1950), vol. 1, p. 10. Jefferson used the spelling "beleive". This letter was written in hopes that John Page would talk to Belinda, a young woman with whom Jefferson, then 20, was infatuated. Jefferson was normally cool and level-headed, but Belinda had a devastating effect on his poise, leaving him tongue-tied and stammering. Saul K. Padover, Jefferson (1942), chapter 2, p. 20.
  • We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
  • The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family…. public emploiment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
    • Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state, letter to Francis Willis, Jr. (April 18, 1790); in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1961), vol. 16, p. 353. Willis served in Congress 1791–1793.
  • Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.
    • Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Young Republicans of Pittsburg (December 2, 1808), in H. A. Washington, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1871), vol. 8, p. 142.
  • The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
    • Thomas Jefferson Letter "to the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland" (31 March 1809).
“Happy are those who mourn, since they will be comforted.
“Happy are the mild-tempered, since they will inherit the earth.
“Happy are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness, since they will be filled.
“Happy are the merciful, since they will be shown mercy.
“Happy are the pure in heart, since they will see God.
“Happy are the peacemakers, since they will be called sons of God.
“Happy are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them.
“Happy are you when people reproach you and persecute you and lyingly say every sort of wicked thing against you for my sake. Rejoice and be overjoyed, since your reward is great in the heavens, for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to you.
  • Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.
  • How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. … All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
  • Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
  • Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, — if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
  • Ren: Hey! What is this thing? *tries to pull it loose off his head* Get it off of me!
Stimpy: It's the Happy Helmet, Ren. Now you'll always be happy! And this is the remote control. And I use this dial to control how happy you are!
  • Ren: "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, ha ha ha ha! Stimpy, I'm so - happy! I must - go *has the word "go" in his mouth, he moves rapidly with every word* - do nice - things! Hee hee he hee hee, ha ha ha hahaaaa! *walks off; In doing this, his entire body turns except for his head, then juts out his chest before taking any steps. Later on, he is seen at an ironing board, still grinning away,* So - happy - ironing... for STIMPY! Ha ha ha ha ha haaa!
Ren: I - must do - wonderful things - for my best - friend - Stimpy! *sees the litterbox and puts his finger on it*OH - JOY!!! HA HA HA HA HAHAAAAAA!!! *picks it up and carries it over to a wastebasket* See how I love to clean - filthy catboxes! *Starts cleaning out the catbox, laughing insanely all the while*
Stimpy: Oh Re-en! I've got a surprise for you! Hey... maybe Ren is somewhere being sad! I will make him happy again!
  • We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
    • Abraham Lincoln, last public address (April 11, 1865); in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 8, p. 399 (1953). On April 9, Lee had surrendered.
  • The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
  • Three ounces are necessary, first of Patience, Then, of Repose & Peace; of Conscience
    A pound entire is needful;
    of Pastimes of all sorts, too,
    Should be gathered as much as the hand can hold;
    Of Pleasant Memory & of Hope three good drachms
    There must be at least. But they should moistened be
    With a liquor made from True Pleasures which rejoice the heart. Then of Love's Magic Drops, a few—
    But use them sparingly, for they may bring a flame
    Which naught but tears can drown,
    Grind the whole and mix therewith of Merriment, an ounce
    To even. Yet all this may not bring happiness
    Except in your Orisons you lift your voice
    To Him who holds the gift of health.
    • Margaret of Navarre, in Marie West King, ed., Recipe for a Happy Life, Written by Margaret of Navarre in the Year Fifteen Hundred, p. 1 (1911). A modern "happy home recipe", author unknown, includes: "4 cups of love, 2 cups of loyalty, 3 cups of forgiveness, 1 cup of friendship, 5 spoons of hope, 2 spoons of tenderness, 4 quarts of faith, 1 barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty, mix thoroughly with faith. Blend it with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope, sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Serve daily with generous helpings".
  • Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
  • Oh happiness! our being's end and aim!
    Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy name;
    That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh,
    For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
  • Fix'd to no spot is Happiness sincere;
    'Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'rywhere;
    'Tis never to be bought, but always free.
  • Heaven to mankind impartial we confess,
    If all are equal in their happiness;
    But mutual wants this happiness increase,
    All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace.
  • Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself."
  • There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words: love and achievement…. In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy…. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
    • Theodor Reik, A Psychologist Looks at Love (1957), chapter 3, final page, in Of Love and Lust, p. 194.
  • Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
  • The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
  • Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell.
  • Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
  • Happiness is possible only in a relationship with a partner. Imagine that some fellow who has lived his life as a singer goes to an uninhabited island and sings as loudly as possible. If there is no one there to hear him, he will not be happy. To realize that we exist for the sake of others is the great achievement that changes our lives. When we realize that our life is not ours alone but is meant to be for the sake of the other, we begin to follow a path different from the one we were on. Just as singing to yourself will not make you happy, there is no joy without a partner. Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.
  • The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
    • Bertrand Russell, in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood, quoted in Alan Wood's Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7.
  • Let us meditate on the love of God, who being supremely happy Himself, communicateth perfect happiness to us. Supreme happiness doth not make God forget us; shall the miserable comforts of this life make us forget Him?
    • James Saurin reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 270.
  • O terque quaterque beati.
    • O thrice, four times happy they!
    • Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 94.
  • Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
    Because I'm happy
    Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
    Because I'm happy
    Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
    Because I'm happy
    Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
    • Pharrell Williams, Happy (21 November 2013) from the[[w:[Despicable Me 2#Soundtrack|Despicable Me 2 soundtrack album]]
  • All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
    • Attributed to Alexander Woollcott in various sources. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989). Sometimes heard, "immoral, illegal, fattening, or too expensive".
  • True happiness ne'er entered at an eye;
    True happiness resides in things unseen.
    • Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 1,021.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350-52.
  • Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.
  • 'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
    Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
    His form was bent, and his gait was slow,
    His long thin hair was white as snow,
    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.
    And he sang every night as he went to bed,
    "Let us be happy down here below;
    The living should live, though the dead be dead,"
    Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
  • Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
  • La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.
    • The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
    • Cesare Beccaria, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment), Introduction (1764).
  • Priestly was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth—that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
  • Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?
    • What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
    • Brutus, to Cicero. Cicero's Letters, I, 16, 9.
  • Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water!
    Ye happy mixtures of more happy days!
  • * * * all who joy would win
    Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin.
  • There comes
    For ever something between us and what
    We deem our happiness.
  • Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?
    • What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?
    • Catullus, Carmina, LXII. 30.
  • The message from the hedge-leaves,
    Heed it, whoso thou art;
    Under lowly eaves
    Lives the happy heart.
  • In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.
    • We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
    • Cicero, De Natura Deorum, I. 20.
  • Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé.
  • If solid happiness we prize,
    Within our breast this jewel lies,
    And they are fools who roam;
    The world has nothing to bestow,
    From our own selves our bliss must flow,
    And that dear hut,—our home.
  • 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.
  • Das beste Glück, des Lebens schönste Kraft
    Ermattet endlich.
  • Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
  • The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
    As sages in all times assert;
    The happy man's without a shirt.
  • And there is ev'n a happiness
    That makes the heart afraid.
  • Fuge magna, licet sub paupere tecto
    Reges et regum vita procurrere amicos.
    • Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy.
    • Horace, Epistles, I. 10. 32.
  • Non possidentem multa vocaveris
    Recte beatum; rectius occupat
    Nomen beati, qui Deorum
    Muneribus sapienter uti,
    Duramque callet pauperiem pati,
    Pejusque leto flagitium timet.
    • You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death.
    • Horace, Carmina, IX, Book 4. 9. 45.
  • That Action is best which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery.
    • Frances Hutcheson, Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725). Treatise II, Section 3. An Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil.
  • Upon the road to Romany
    It's stay, friend, stay!
    There's lots o' love and lots o' time
    To linger on the way;
    Poppies for the twilight,
    Roses for the noon,
    It's happy goes as lucky goes,
    To Romany in June.
  • Ducimus autem
    Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitæ,
    Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.
    • We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
    • Juvenal, Satires, XII. 20.
  • On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux, qu'on se l'imagine.
  • A sound Mind in a sound Body, is a short but full description of a happy State in this World.
  • Happiness, to some elation;
    Is to others, mere stagnation.
  • Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,
    We are happy now because God wills it.
  • Sive ad felices vadam post funera campos,
    Seu ferar ardentem rapidi Phlegethontis ad undam,
    Nec sine te felix ero, nec tecum miser unquam.
    • Heaven would not be Heaven were thy soul not with mine, nor would Hell be Hell were our souls together.
    • Baptista Mantuanus, Eclogue, III. 108.
  • Neminem, dum adhuc viveret, beatum dici debere arbitrabatur.
    • He (Solon) considered that no one ought to be called happy as long as he was alive.
    • Valerius Maximus, Book VII. 2. Ext. 2. Same in Sophocles—Œdipus Rex. End. Herodotus—Clio. 32. Solon to Cræsus. Repeated by Cræsus to Cyrus when on his funeral pyre, thus obtaining his pardon.
  • No eye to watch and no tongue to wound us,
    All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
  • The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
    The wise grows it under his feet.
  • Dicique beatus
    Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet.
    • Before he is dead and buried no one ought to be called happy.
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III. 136.
  • Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.
  • Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."
    • Plutarch, Morals, Volume II. Of the Love of Wealth.
  • Le bonheur des méchants comme un torrent s'écoule.
    • The happiness of the wicked flows away as a torrent.
    • Jean Racine, Athalie, II. 7.
  • Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
  • Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises.
  • Des Menschen Wille, das ist sein Glück.
  • O mother, mother, what is bliss?
    O mother, what is bale?
    Without my William what were heaven,
    Or with him what were hell?
  • Non potest quisquam beate degere, qui se tantum intuetur, qui omnia ad utilitates suas convertit; alteri vivas oportet, si vis tibi vivere.
    • No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
    • Seneca the Younger, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XLVIII.
  • Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day!
    Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold,
    Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway
    For which, O willing slaves to Custom old,
    Severe taskmistress! ye your hearts have sold.
  • Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.
  • Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
  • Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
    Nor a friend to know me;
    All I ask, the heavens above,
    And the road below me.
  • For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart;
    And makes his pulses fly,
    To catch the thrill of a happy voice,
    And the light of a pleasant eye.
  • True happiness is to no spot confined.
    If you preserve a firm and constant mind,
    'Tis here, 'tis everywhere.
  • We're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
    But near approaches make the prospect less.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
  • The sacrifices required in the Christian life are necessary to emancipate the soul, and raise it above its servile dependence on condition. They are losses of mere happiness, and for just that reason they are preparations of joy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • There is something better for us in the world than happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness of the future which it brings; but we will not place happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest soils 'grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks.
  • When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself — nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.
  • 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.
  • Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God.
  • Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
  • Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
  • So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
  • Beware what earth calls happiness; beware
    All joys, but joys that never can expire.
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