Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Success can create more madness than happiness.
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.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
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.