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Every man has his secret sorrows.
Sep 10, 2025
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.
Beautiful people do not just happen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.