top of page
"Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Happiness quotes

"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

"Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
Explore more quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."

"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."

"He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later."

"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."

"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
bottom of page