All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Happiness”

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.”
“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”
“This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.”
“Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.”
“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”
“Happiness and Beauty are by-products.”
“Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.”

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