One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

How to gain how to keep how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do and of all they are willing to endure.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness it is necessary to have deserved it.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.