Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.
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.
The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
May the people marvel admiringly, and may Utu witness it in joy.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.