Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. 911
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. 728
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. 2.3K
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. 665
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. 623
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. 1.14K
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. 2.6K
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. 666
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. 692
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. 765
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. 683
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. 1.83K
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. 2.32K
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. 657
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. 712
