There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

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

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

Little islands of human happiness peace and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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.

I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Work and live to serve others to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.