“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
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“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”
“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.”
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.”
“Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.”
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
“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.”
“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.”
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”
“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.”
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.”
“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.”