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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.