You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to read more

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper
into the eternal mystery of nature has read more

He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper
into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace.
He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and
help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more
happiness than one man can bear.

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.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. -Unknown.

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. -Unknown.

Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.

Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.

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?