"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised." ― Gilbert K. Chesterton Topic(s): Happiness Tags: happiness, mystery More From Gilbert K. Chesterton "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." "Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young." "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around." More In Happiness "What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton "We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."― Honore de Balzac "Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others."― Bar Refaeli