Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy

Quote by William Hazlett

Topics: Happiness Quotes

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on...

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on...

A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves

A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create...

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create...

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great...

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous...

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at...

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition...

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition...

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like...

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like...

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we...

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we...

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them....

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them....

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing...

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing...

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy