“Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”
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“You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.”
“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.”
“I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.”
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”
“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.”
“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“Money may not buy happiness, but it can d--n well give it!”
“I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.”
“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.”
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”
“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.”
“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.”
“Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”
“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”
“The secret of happiness is something to do.”
“We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.”
“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.”
“Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.”
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
“Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.”
“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”