You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. – Author Unknown

One joy shatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese Proverb

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. – Charles L. Morganp

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdochp

Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szaszp

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. – Ernest Dimnetp

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. – Niccolo Machiavellip

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. – George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898p

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. – Eugene O’Neillp

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