Tell him on the contrary that he needs in the interest of his own happiness to walk in the path of humility and self-control and he will be indifferent or even actively resentful.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Thus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life for happiness.
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit it's right here.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears happiness or sadness.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life but a way of wasting some force an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep left there to dream of their happiness.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it but is in it.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
When I was waiting tables washing dishes or mowing lawns for money I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path my own journey an American journey where I could think for myself decide for myself define happiness for myself.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced like the violin.
Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness but stability.
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.