Charles Dickens Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Being Happy, Delight

"Fictional character: Vincent Crummles". "Nicholas Nickleby", www.imdb.com. 2002.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Chains

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Inspiring, Laughter

Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving

Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Money, Business

David Copperfield ch. 12 (1850)

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Gratitude, Strong

Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy's Progress”, p.364

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Peace, Morning

Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.3654, e-artnow

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

Charles Dickens

Happiness, Blessed, Home

Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.86