Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity and their love to feed their pride.
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.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.
To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness the good he seeks.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalised.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Indeed man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.
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.
When you're passionate about something you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent not an object.