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Sayings about Happiness:

The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously.: Francis Atterbury

It cannot consist with the divine attributes that the impious man’s joys should, upon the whole, exceed those of the upright.: Francis Atterbury

They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.: Francis Bacon

This ocean of felicity is so shoreless and bottomless that all the saints and angels cannot exhaust it.: Robert Boyle

The happy have whole days, and those they choose; The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.: Colley Cibber

He that would live at ease should always put the best construction on business and conversation.: Jeremy Collier

I think you the happiest couple in the world; for you’re not only happy in one another, but happy in yourselves, and by yourselves.: William Congreve

If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam: The world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.: Nathaniel Cotton

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire.: Duchess de Praslin

Res non parta labore, sed relicta, was thought by a poet to be one of the requisites of a happy life.: John Dryden

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man: we naturally aim at happiness, and cannot bear to have it confined to our present being.: John Dryden

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy, and can make them wretched.: Owen Felltham

The bane of human happiness is ordinarily not so much an absolute ignorance of what is best, as an inattention to it, accompanied with a habit of not adverting to prospects the most certain, and the most awful.: Robert Hall

Happiness is not to be prescribed, but enjoyed; and such is the benevolent arrangement of Divine Providence, that wherever there is a moral preparation for it, it follows of course.: Robert Hall

All things subject to action the will does so far incline unto as reason judges them more available to our bliss.: Richard Hooker

To be happy, the passion must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.: David Hume

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.: Washington Irving

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of His creatures in this world; but that He has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed.: Thomas Jefferson

The happy man is he who distinguishes the boundary between desire and delight, and stands firmly on the higher ground,—he who knows that pleasure is not only not possession, but is often to be lost, and always to be endangered by it.: Walter Savage Landor

He that upon a true principle lives without any disquiet of thought may be said to be happy.: Roger L’Estrange

Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of, and misery the utmost pain.: John Locke

The indolency and enjoyment we have sufficing for our present happiness, we desire not to venture the change, being content; and that is enough.: John Locke

That in this state of ignorance we short-sighted creatures might not mistake true felicity, we are endowed with a power to suspend any particular desire. This is standing still where we are not sufficiently assured.: John Locke

The stronger ties we have to an unalterable pursuit of happiness, which is greatest good, the more are we free from any necessary compliance with our desire set upon any particular and then appearing preferable good, till we have duly examined it.: John Locke

Whatever necessity determines to the pursuit of real bliss, the same necessity establishes suspense, and scrutiny of each successive desire, whether the satisfaction of it does not interfere with our true happiness, and mislead us from it.: John Locke

As to present happiness and misery, when that alone comes in consideration, and the consequences are removed, a man never chooses amiss.: John Locke

Our desires carry the mind out to absent good, according to the necessity which we think there is of it to the making or increase of our happiness.: John Locke

It is easy to give account how it comes to pass that though all men desire happiness, yet their wills carry them so contrarily.: John Locke

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world: he that has these two has little more to wish for, and he that wants either of them will be but little the better for anything else.: John Locke

Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not.: John Locke

The variety and contrary choices that men make in the world argue that the same thing is not good to every man alike: this variety of pursuits shows that every one does not place his happiness in the same thing.: John Locke

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.: Montesquieu

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.: Alexander Pope

False happiness is like false money: it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.: 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

O hell! to choose love by another’s eye!: William Shakespeare

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!: William Shakespeare

If the chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved, as I believe it does, those sudden changes of fortune seldom contribute much to happiness.: Adam Smith

When my concernment takes up no more room than myself, then, so long as I know where to breathe, I know also where to be happy.: Robert South

In the soul, when the supreme faculties move regularly, the inferior passions and faculties following, there arises a serenity infinitely beyond the highest quintessence and elixir of worldly delight.: Robert South

Nothing can make a man happy but that which shall last as long as he lasts: for an immortal soul shall persist in being, not only when profit, pleasure, and honour, but when time itself, shall cease.: Robert South

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men, that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.: Jonathan Swift

No rules can make amiability; our minds and apprehensions make that; and so is our felicity.: Jeremy Taylor

To be happy, is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.: John Tillotson

A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds, consequently to our happiness; and that is, holiness and goodness.: John Tillotson

Religion directs us rather to secure inward peace than outward ease.: John Tillotson

Every moment we feel our dependence upon God, and find that we can neither be happy without him, nor think ourselves so.: John Tillotson

Thus hath God not only riveted the notion of himself into our natures, but likewise made the belief of his being necessary to the peace of our minds and happiness of society.: John Tillotson

What inexpressible comfort does overflow the pious soul from a conscience of its own innocency!: John Tillotson

Till this be cured by religion, it is as impossible for a man to be happy, that is, pleased and contented within himself, as it is for a sick man to be at ease.: John Tillotson

Every one hath a natural dread of everything that can endanger his happiness.: John Tillotson

Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, cannot choose but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration.: John Tillotson

To persevere in any evil course makes you unhappy in this life.: William Wake

Since happiness is necessarily the supreme object of our desires, and duty the supreme rule of our actions, there can be no harmony in our being except our happiness coincides with our duty.: William Whewell

The state or condition by which the nature of anything is advanced to the utmost perfection of which it is capable, according to its rank or kind, is called the chief end or happiness of such a thing.: Bishop John Wilkins

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