The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. 2.42K
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. 665
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. 662
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. 677
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. 764
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. 654
