Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.