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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.