happiness
“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten — happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”
“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved!”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future.”
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside—candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
“Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”
“To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of another.”
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.”
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”