The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The white man happiness cannot be purchased by the black man misery.

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.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

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.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

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 have 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 self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.