My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.”
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
"Happiness is a place between too much and too little"
“Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” –
“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.”
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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
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“How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.”
“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”
"No medicine cures what happiness cannot"
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” –
“Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.”
“Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.”
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“Happiness is a form of courage.”
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
–"Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy"
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”
“Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.”
“Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.”
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit"
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” – man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.”
"Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it"
“Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.”