John Lubbock Happiness Quotations

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.