Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.
Man must exalt justice in order to fight against eternal injustice, create happiness in order to protest against the universe of unhappiness.
Luck is not chance — It’s Toil — Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned —
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call “happiness”, if we be but able to entertain them.
If I think that happiness is possible, I know all too well its hidden nature – and by what wretched paradox, instead of being an excess that would elevate us in dignity, it is a numbness we are only aware of afterward.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.
I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.
