Happiness Quotes · Page 10

Rediscover joy with uplifting happiness quotes that remind you of life's simple pleasures. These words will help you find contentment and gratitude in everyday moments.

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“Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.”

— Vauvenargues

“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!”

— Thomas Campbell

“Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and heaven.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Happy are they that never come at all, And they, that, having come, the soonest go.”

— Omar Khayyam

“I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.”

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”

— George Santayana

“Let us be content to live in the mind.”

— George Santayana

“People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”

— Martial

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

— Anthony Trollope

“Happiness flourishes where there is happiness, and love withers quickly in an atmosphere of constraint and gloom.”

— André Maurois

“Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.”

— John Buchan

“Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.”

— William Blake

“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”

— Joseph Joubert

“We must bring three parts in four of the treat along with us — In short we must be happy within — and then few things without us make much difference — This is my Shandean…”

— Laurence Sterne

“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to…”

— David Hume

“Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprizes, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human…”

— David Hume

“We have achieved political freedom but our revolution is not yet complete and is still in progress, for political freedom without the assurance of the right to live and to pursue…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”

— Robert Burns

“Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour—let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.”

— Walter de la Mare

“A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.”

— Romain Rolland

“Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me — in vain!”

— Omar Khayyam

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