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I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.Collection: Happiness
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.Collection: Happiness
The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.Collection: Happiness
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.Collection: Happiness
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.Collection: Happiness
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.Collection: Happiness
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.Collection: Happiness
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is activity.Collection: Happiness
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.Collection: Happiness
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.Collection: Happiness
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.Collection: Happiness
I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.Collection: Happiness
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn'tCollection: Happiness
Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.Collection: Happiness
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditionsCollection: Happiness
How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!Collection: Happiness
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.Collection: Happiness
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.Collection: Happiness
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.Collection: Happiness
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is a sort of action.Collection: Happiness
Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.Collection: Happiness
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.Collection: Happiness
You can never learn anything that you did not already knowCollection: Happiness
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.Collection: Happiness
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.Collection: Happiness
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.Collection: Happiness
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.Collection: Happiness
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.Collection: Happiness
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.Collection: Happiness
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.Collection: Happiness
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.Collection: Happiness
though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.Collection: Happiness
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.Collection: Happiness
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.Collection: Happiness
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.Collection: Happiness
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.Collection: Happiness
Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.Collection: Happiness
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.Collection: Happiness
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.Collection: Happiness
The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.Collection: Happiness
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.Collection: Happiness
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.Collection: Happiness
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.Collection: Happiness