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

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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