Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Work and live to serve others to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored and life is only too short and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him and love something to be cherished by him forever.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
For happiness one needs security but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be pressed small like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are by a fixed recipe.
Whether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
People say that money is not the key to happiness but I always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.