You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Getting married for me was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release that we have something more important than our separate selves and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

To me acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

The great person is ahead of their time the smart make something out of it and the blockhead sets themselves against it.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The great secret of doctors known only to their wives but still hidden from the public is that most things get better by themselves most things in fact are better in the morning.

In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.