When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
Money if it does not bring you happiness will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us progress is always an approach toward it.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.