I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness. 699
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. 573
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. 701
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. 1.7K
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. 686
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. 709
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. 636
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. 623
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. 815
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. 618
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. 1.21K
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. 2.09K
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. 1.17K
