Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.