In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.