Happiness Quotes

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest and the pleasantest of things. (Aristotle, 384-322 b.c.)

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. (Ingrid Bergman, 1917-1982)

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834)

Call no man happy till you know the nature of his death! He is at best but fortunate. (Herodotus, 484-424 b.c.)

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. (Victor Hugo, 1802-1885)

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)

Oh, how bitter a thing is to look through another man's eye. (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)

Happiness is the shadow of things past, which fools still take for that which is to be! (Francis Thompson, 1859-1907)

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. (Edith Newbold Wharton, 1862-1937)

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