Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.[Vous ne serez jamais heureux si vous continuez à rechercher en quoi consiste le bonheur. Vous ne vivrez jamais si vous recherchez le sens de la vie.]
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved… loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Next week shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
It is a happiness to wonder; – it is a happiness to dream.
