A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. 2.65K
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. 1.12K
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. 2.49K
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. 694
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. 760
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. 820
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. 1.03K
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. 3.53K
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. 765
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. 1.66K
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. 1.61K
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. 2.62K
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. 784
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. 2.34K
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. 722
Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. 3.51K
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. 780
