“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
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Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“But does not happiness come from the soul within?”
Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.”
“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
Source: The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
Source: The Hobbit
“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)
“Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
Source: The Analects
Source: Happiness
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.”
“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
Source: Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty