The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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.
True art is to create a magnificent city and fill the hearts of its people with happiness.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy.
It is our sacred duty to give the new generation a safe, happy, beautiful and prosperous Bangladesh.
Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.