Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.
I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
