Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalised.
Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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.
Money has never made man happy nor will it there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
The sea the great unifier is man's only hope. Now as never before the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
They never fail who die in a great cause.