Happiness Quotes

A few T-shirts with "happiness" memes. I had a friend with this shirt like 20 years ago.

Happiness, from my Life 101 Quote book:

1. Don't worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin, also Bob Marley
2. What? Me worry? -Alfred E. Newman
3. Paradise is where I am. -Voltaire
4. How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! -Robert Browning
5. A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. -Joseph Addison
6. The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. -William Shakespeare
7. Every misery I miss is a new blessing. -Izaak Walton
8. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. A merry heart doeth good like medicine. -Proverbs 17:22
10. Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. -William Styron.*Action is the antidote to despair -Joan Baez
11. The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the lifegiving earth, and the native American shared this elemental ethic: the land was alive to his loving touch, and he, it's son, was brother to all creatures. -Stewart Lee Udall
12. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. -Erasmus
13. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. -John Milton
14. Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thought should be noisy and colorful and lively. -Mel Brooks
15. He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh -Koran
16. If an idea is important enough it is worth laughing at. -Alan Plater
17. I can live for two months on a good compliment. -Mark Twain
18. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer
19. My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. -Robert G. Ingersoll
20. To love what you do and feel that it matters- how could anything be more fun? -Katherine Graham
21. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman -or a bad woman. It depends on how much happiness you can handle. -George Burns
22. Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. -Robertson Davies
23. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness -Bertrand Russell
24. Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. -Dr. Melba Colgrove
25. One joy scatters a hundred griefs. -Chinese Proverb
26. In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. -Karl Reiland
27. The roots of happiness grow deepest in the soil of service. -anonymous
28. Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy. -Buddha
29. The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness- you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but disposition, and life is what you make of it. -Gill Robb Wilson
30. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -Thomas Jefferson.
31. Happiness is a warm gun -Beatles
32. All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler
33. There is no time like the pleasant. -Oliver Herford
34. Don't expect to enjoy life if you keep your milk of human kindness all bottled up. -anonymous
35. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -Andre Gide
36. A faithful friend is the medicine of life. -Ecclesiasticus 6:16
37. It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. -W.S. Gilbert
38. America is a conspiracy to make you happy. -John Updike
39. Gladness of the heart is the life of a man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days. -Ecclesiasticus 30:22

Okay, so this isn't a quote: 7/13/08 BBC news reports momentous events in your life such as having children, or getting married, may make you happier, but only temporarily. Our basic happiness level essentially stays the same throughout adult life, the Economic Journal It reports there was some literature on people who became paraplegic, who, when interviewed a few years later, had similar levels of happiness to those who had not been affected this way. "Likewise, there are studies of lottery winners who are no happier in the long term." It's likened to a "thermostat," a range that we bounce around in, that may be genetic.