Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me particularly given my medical history.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it only what destroys it can be told.
I hump the wild to take it all in there is no bag limit on happiness.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.
There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for 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.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.