There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.