“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.”
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“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.”
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”
“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.”
“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.”
“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.”
“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.”
“Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.”
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.”
“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”
“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .”
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.”