Happiness Quotes
Most happiness quotes online are cheerful. The sourced ones on this page often are not. Bertrand Russell wrote in Sceptical Essays (1928) that after enjoying ourselves, our greatest pleasure is preventing others from enjoying themselves. Macaulay’s History of England (1849) has the Puritan who hated bear-baiting not because it hurt the bear but because it pleased the spectators. Tom Robbins gave the most practical advice in a 2002 interview: the key to self-generated happiness is refusing to take yourself too seriously.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive” is credited to Marcus Aurelius and flagged as misattributed. “No man is happy who does not think himself so” is credited to Publilius Syrus and marked disputed.
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.
Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.