happiness
“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.”
“Moderation increases enjoyment, and makes pleasure even greater.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove pain.”
“We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness; since, if that be present, we have everything.”
“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are.”
“We must laugh and philosophize at the same time and attend to our household and employ our other faculties.”
“We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything.”
“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
“We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives that are different and yet the same.”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness.”
“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”
“The hell with it. Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”
“Every bliss achieved is a masterpiece: the slightest error turns it awry.”