happiness

"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."

"Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get."

"I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her."

"Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing."

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."

"If you love a person, you should show it in adundance, not reserve it for special occasions like fine china."

"The greenest of pastures are right here on earth."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."

"...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people..."

"I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

"Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things."

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind."

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory."