All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Happiness”

“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.”
“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
“Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.”
“Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.”
“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
“Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.”
“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?”
“I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.”
“Obscurity and a competenceâ€”that is the life that is best worth living.”

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