Famous Quotes About happiness

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.