The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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