“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.”
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“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.”
“Desire is individual. Happiness is common.”
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”
“People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.”
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.”
“Happiness seems made to be shared.”
“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”
“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.”
“Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.”
“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”
“Happiness does not consist in self-love.”
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
“To buy happiness is to sell soul.”
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”
“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”
“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.”