Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

You can be happy where you are.

You can be happy where you are.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do read more

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

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

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

Pure love produces pure nonsense.

Pure love produces pure nonsense.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it read more

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be