The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Unknown.

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Unknown.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity read more

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any read more

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what read more

Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.

Happiness seems made to be shared.
[Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]

Happiness seems made to be shared.
[Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be read more

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.

To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.