“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
Seneca
EternityPeace
Happiness Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HAPPINESS
Happiness Quotes
Read the best happiness quotes on joy, contentment and living well from Aristotle, Epictetus, Tolstoy, Thiruvalluvar, Kabir, the Gita and more. Words to brighten your day.
“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.”
Publilius Syrus
Living FullyPresent Moment
“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
Martial
MemoriesGratitude
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
Aesop
Peace Of MindSimple Living
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
Plato
ParentingValues
“Confine thyself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
Present MomentShort Quotes
“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Publilius Syrus
FriendshipComfort
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
Horace
Hard WorkLife
“Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.”
Virgil
Hard TimesHope
“Perfect enjoyment is to be found in having no enjoyment; perfect praise is to be without praise.”
Zhuangzi
ContentmentPhilosophy
“Supreme happiness comes to the yogi whose mind is peaceful, whose passions are calmed, and who is free from sin.”
The Bhagavad Gita
Inner PeaceSpirituality
“I am never merry when I hear sweet music.”
William Shakespeare
MusicEmotions
“Sport that wrinkled Care derides, and Laughter holding both his sides.”
John Milton
LaughterPoetry
“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience.”
Izaak Walton
HealthGratitude
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
GenerosityJoy
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
Mark Twain
HumourBlessings
“Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”
Oscar Wilde
LifeFunny
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.”
The Bible (Psalm 1:1)
WisdomFaith
“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”
The Bible (3 John 1:4)
ChildrenJoy
“No harm comes to the life of one who eats with moderation what suits him.”
Thiruvalluvar
HealthModeration
“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
William Shakespeare
StrengthFunny
“He that lives well is learned enough.”
George Herbert
Living WellWisdom
“My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.”
William Wordsworth
NatureJoy
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
William Hazlitt
LaughterHuman Nature
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance.”
Thomas Carlyle
CheerfulnessStrength