“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.”
“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”
“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”
“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”