Joseph Joubert Quotes on Happiness
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In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.