For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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.
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.