"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
"The right to happiness is fundamental."
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."
"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."
"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow."
"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
"To buy happiness is to sell soul."
"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."
"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."
"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
