To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness. 792
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that. 694
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. 697
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. 662
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. 1.14K
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? 1.03K
True religion… is giving and finding one’s happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. 600
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. 680
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. 2.32K
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. 638
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. 2.26K
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. 1.93K
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. 714
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. 2.01K
I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy. 642
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. 1.82K
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. 1.96K
