The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and
the life he leads?

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and
the life he leads?

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly read more

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant read more

Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.

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.