Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
But O how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.