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.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Money can not 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.

Whoever said money can not buy happiness simply did not know where to go shopping.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I am not even sure we can draw lessons from them.