happiness Quotes

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I bear a charmed life.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.