Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? 673
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. 700
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. 765
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. 640
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. 789
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. 692
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. 2.53K
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. 825
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. 2.29K
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. 745
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. 708
