Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Happiness is the soul in peace.
We are most happy when least aware of happiness.
- Much too oft we make life gloomy--
- When happy we might be,
- If we gathered more of sunshine,
- And not dark shadows see.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON, Thoughts
- Happiness is a road-side flower, growing on the highways of Usefulness,
- Plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
He is truly a happy man who can, upon all occasions, reconcile himself to his fortune.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Narcissus in Chains
The happiest people are the people with the best attitudes, not the best lives.
BOB LONSBERRY, A Various Language
Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
He that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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.
Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no entrance.
Very much less than we think does our happiness depend upon that which is external to us. If there is no heaven within, all the externalities of an outward heaven would be insufficient to produce happiness.
REUEN THOMAS, Thoughts for the Thoughtful
We are all travelling to one destination--happiness; but none are going by the same road.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearnings after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Our happiness, like our fortune, is often seriously injured by injudicious economy.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not, it were better that nothing should be. Without her, wisdom is but a shadow, and virtue a name; she is their sovereign mistress; for her alone they labour, and by her they will be paid; to enjoy her, and to communicate her, is the object of their efforts, and the consummation of their toil.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
The farther from truth, the farther from happiness.
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
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