Being happy Quote by Jane Austen

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

— Jane Austen

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

— Arthur Schopenhauer

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to…

— Samuel Johnson

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

— Dorothy Day

Happiness is pleasure without regret

— Leo Tolstoy

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

— Dave Eggers

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will…

— Jeremy Bentham

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

— Ezra Taft Benson

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

— Abdu'l-Bahá

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

— Arnold Bennett

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugo Black

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau