The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

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

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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