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There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heavens above, And the road below me. - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Vagabond Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. - Lytton Strachey Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height. - Johan August Strindberg, A Dream Play, (Robinson's translation) The sweetest bird builds near the ground, The loveliest flower springs low; And we must stoop for happiness If we its worth would know. - Charles Swain So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less. - Jonathan Swift No man is happy who does not think himself so. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. - Booth Tarkington (Newton Booth Tarkington) Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter? - William Makepeace Thackeray True happiness (if understood) Consists alone in doing good. - James Thomson (1) Man is the artificer of his own happiness. - Henry David Thoreau To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind. - John Tillotson Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy. - Martin Farquhar Tupper The great essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Unknown He (Solon) considered that no one ought to be called happy as long as he was alive. [Lat., Neminem, dum adhuc viveret, beatum dici debere arbitrabatur.] - Valerius Maximus bk. VII, 2, ext. 2 O thrice, four times happy they! [Lat., O terque quaterque beati.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (I, 94) Happiness is a good that Nature sells us. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Happiness is no laughing matter. - Archbishop Richard Whately Happiness is a rare cosmetic. - George John Whyte-Melville A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness. - Nathaniel Parker Willis For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart; And makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye. - Nathaniel Parker Willis, Saturday Afternoon (st. 1) True happiness is to no spot confined, If you preserve a firm and constant mind, 'Tis here, 'tis everywhere. - John Huddlestone Wynne, History of Ireland Displaying page 11 of 12 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12
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