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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

I’m very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.