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 most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.
Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.
The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.
We are most pleased with the happiness of others when it arises out of habits similar to our own.