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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
MBMarguerite Gardiner Blessington1789–1849Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Desultory Thoughts and Reflections (1839), p. 90
- Beauty
Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887
Happiness is so hard to define and foolish to define. Am I acting? That’s the worst thing you can ask yourself. You can be happy suddenly. It can spring on you, not when you reach a plateau. You can be happy going backward or going down. You can be happy at the loss of something.
Steve Martinborn 1945
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Protestant Episcopal Church (19 August 1789) Scan at American Memory (Library of Congress).
- Morality
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison1672–1719
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
BHBurton Hills
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields1880–1946
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 48, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God’s love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Letter (8 June 1762) [to an unnamed recipient], p. 103
- Hope
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.
Roger Ebert1942–2013