Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.
If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Happy is the nation without a history.
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
A husband is a man who lost his liberty in pursuit of happiness.
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.
He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Beauty is only the promise of happiness.
Striving for better life we waste the one we already have.
Chasing happiness all the time we run away from the one we have already found.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
All places are distant from heaven alike.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
