Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?
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