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No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, And earth forgot, and all heaven around us! - Thomas Moore, Come O'er the Sea Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. - Louis Charles Alfred de Musset Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them. - Old French Saying What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? - Margaret Oliphant The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim, The Wise Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. - George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) Before he is dead and buried no one ought to be called happy. [Lat., Dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (bk. III, 136) The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want. - William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God. - Blaise Pascal If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy. - Blaise Pascal Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so. - Blaise Pascal, Thoughts (ch. V, sec. I) Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting. - Plutarch Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and no in those necessary things." - Plutarch, Morals (vol. II, Of the Love of Wealth) Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. - Alexander Pope Oh happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate'er thy name; That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 1) Fix'd to no spot is Happiness sincere; 'Tis nowhere to be found, or ev'rywhere; 'Tis never to be bought, but always free. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 15) Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness; But equal wants this happiness increase, All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 53) Happiness is not perfected until it is shared. - Jane Porter Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire. - Duchesse de Praslin It is ever thus with happiness; It is the gay to-morrow of the mind, That never comes. - Edna Dean Proctor Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust Displaying page 8 of 12 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12
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