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 2. A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests Or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

 3. A lifetime of happiness! It would be hell on earth.

 4. All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.

 5. As the ivy twines around the oak, so do misery and misfortune encompass the happiness of man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are the skies.

 6. Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy.

 7. Be it jewel or toy, Not the prize gives the joy, But the striving to win the prize.

 8. Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being.

 9. Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

10. Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

11. Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty. The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.

12. Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

13. False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated.

14. From trial he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures - peace and health.

15. Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

16. Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

17. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

18. Happiness hath he who renounces this cycle of being, which is utterly unsubstantial and overwhelmed by the pains of birth, death, old age and disease.

19. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

20. Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

21. Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

22. Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

23. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

24. Happiness is nothing if it is not known, and very little if it is not envied.

25. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

26. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

27. Happiness is the light on the water.

28. Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

29. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

30. Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory.

31. He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

32. He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.

33. Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

34. If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

35. If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

36. Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

37. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

38. Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

39. Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

40. Joys too exquisite to last, and yet more exquisite when past.

41. Know then this truth, enough for man to know Virtue alone is happiness below.

42. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

43. No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

44. Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

45. One by one (bright gifts from heaven) Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

46. One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

47. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

48. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

49. The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

50. The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

51. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

52. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

53. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

54. The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

55. The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

56. The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colourless when unbroken.

57. The water is cold and dark and deep.

58. The wise realizing through meditation the timeless Self, beyond all perception, deep in the cave of the heart leave pleasure and pain far behind. The man who knows he is neither body nor mind, but the eternal Self, divine principle of existence, finds the source of all joy and lives in joy abiding.

59. There is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid.

60. There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

61. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

62. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

63. There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again! The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, "Let no one be called happy till his death;" to which I would add, "Let no one, till his death be called unhappy."

64. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

65. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

66. Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.

67. To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

68. To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

69. Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.

70. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

71. Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

72. We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

73. We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.

74. We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

75. What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

76. What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? Happiness seems made to be shared.

77. Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation:know the nature of joy.

78. Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

79. You traverse the world in search of happiness,which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.