Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.