“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
More from Jane Austen on Happiness
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…”
“But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.”
“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
Anton Chekhov
5 quotes“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Happiness is loving your enemies.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in...”
John Stuart Mill
5 quotes“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”