To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
