Edith Wharton

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

I love people who make me laugh.

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.