The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.