Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be.
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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.
