“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
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happiness
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.”
“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.”
“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”
“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.”
“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
“It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”
“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”