Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
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.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
A man of wisdom knows that life is an illusion, so he lives a life of love and happiness as his mission.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
Miss Schermerhorn: Is that man drunk? Happy Jack: Och, dead as Good Friday, miss.
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
A man’s high success requires a key; but his happiness needs personality to be low-key
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a gr...
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
This is what I chose. This is it." I look over Robert's shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver's seat and closes the door behind him. "Besides, Robert. The goal of my life i...
Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us wee...
