Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
He recognized in himself that power to forget which only children have, and geniuses, and the innocent. Innocent, overwhelmed by joy, he understood at last that he was made for happiness.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.
The necessity of pursuing true Happiness is the foundation of liberty.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.
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.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
Not only were we happy, but we knew it.
In the happiness of others I seek my own.
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
The real name of happiness is contentment.
I told myself that as long as there were books I could be sure of being happy.
To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
If you want to be happy, be.
