Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.