Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ”

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government. ”

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. ”

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. ”

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. ”

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. ”

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. ”

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ”

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ”

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ”