The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.