The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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