15,958 Quotes About Happiness

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

I'm very happy and satisfied. We just had two months to prepare, the others had a year. We did everything we were able to do.

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.