The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

God is not compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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 have 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 am convinced of the opposite.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

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.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.