The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. 2.47K
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. 2.35K
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. 1.53K
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. 692
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. 1.33K
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. 640
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. 2.47K
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. 627
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. 1.35K
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. 639
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. 722
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. 2.46K
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. 2.45K
