There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

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.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness and no virtue like mercy.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Money has never made man happy nor will it there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

There is happiness in duty although it may not seem so.

There is only one passion the passion for happiness.

Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Don't walk behind me I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

There is only one happiness in this life to love and be loved.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.