My heart is like a singing bird.
I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
No man is happy unless he believes he is.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
