Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
A mind always employed is always happy.
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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