All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Love is a great beautifier.
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.
