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.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather in spite of ourselves.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls and we push it with our feet when it stops.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.
Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.