Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the bestare not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
To fill the hour that is happiness.
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. god batters at its sails.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden)satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
No man can be happy without friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, perty and wealth have both failed.
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Happiness is not a reward it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man;s eyes.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Remember that the happiest people are not these getting more, but those giving more.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, there in to be content.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
When you smile about the life you live, you end up living a life smiling about.
Work to create a life that feels right to YOU, not one that looks right to everyone else.
No amount of money will make you happy if you aren't happy with yourself.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
