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I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else happiness.

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

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Happiness is not something you experience; it is something you remember.

It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man eyes.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.