Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.