George Eliot

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

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

I’m always smiling and happy.

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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

Let’s make ourselves happy

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to except and what to let go.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.