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Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing⁠—absolute nothing⁠—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
- Advice
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
Cary Grant1904–1986Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
- Life & Death
There is no man under the sun so fortunate as I
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), Hans in LuckIn context
- Luck
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (1992) Bantam reissue
Your life doesn’t get any better than your mind is: You might have wonderful friends, perfect health, a great career, and everything else you want, and you can still be miserable.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Sam Harris, Taming the Mind (April 12, 2014)
- Thinking
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XX: The Flower of Eden
- Change
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1851
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
William Hazlitt1778–1830“Common Places,” No. 1, The Literary Examiner (September—December 1823), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
- Wisdom
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988“Jubal Harshaw” in the first edition (1961)
- Love
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Marita in Ch. 11
- Intelligence
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
BHBurton Hills
Felicity is a continuall progresse of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former, being still but the way to the later.
Thomas Hobbes1588–1679Leviathan (1651), Part I: Of Man, Chapter XIIn context
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894A Mortal Antipathy (1885)
- Love
Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894