Happy Quotes

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
- Eugene O'Neill

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- Ernest Dimnet

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
- Anonymous Author

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Happiness is... Usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- Iris Murdoch

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
- Andrew Delbanco

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- Joseph Roux

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
- Mignon McLaughlin