To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.

To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and read more

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think read more

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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.

Happiness is not given but exchanged.

Happiness is not given but exchanged.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, read more

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.