False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
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.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.