Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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

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

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.