“Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.”
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“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.”
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.”
“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.”
“The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.”
“I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”
“Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.”
“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.”
“Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.”
“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.”
“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”
“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.”
“Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.”
“An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.”
“People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.”
“God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.”
“Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.”
“Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.”
“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.”