George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage – the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.

It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I’m always smiling and happy.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

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

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

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; without reason.