Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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 needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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.