Quotes about happiness

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

We must cultivate our garden.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Know your own happiness.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.