Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

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.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it read more

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his read more

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds read more

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

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.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest read more

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and
legislation.

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.

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.