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What is happiness to me is not necessarily for you. Someone once said, there are three truths: your truth, my truth and the truth. And I think that's true.
Sep 10, 2025
And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.
What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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.
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.
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.