Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.