“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.”
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“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
“A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.”
“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
“Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“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.”
“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.”
“When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.”
“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”
“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
“No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
“Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.”
“My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.”
“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.”
“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.”
“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”
“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.”