Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
The right to happiness is fundamental.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
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 different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.