The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.