Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Happiness ain’t a thing in itself – it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant.
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more – to learning. Always.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
A man who as physical being is always turned outward, thinking that his happiness lies outside himself. Finally he is turned inward and discovers that the springs lie within him.
