“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
“A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.”
“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”
“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.”
“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.”
“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”
“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.”
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”
“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
“A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.”
“When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.”