Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are read more

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
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If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our bliss must flow,
And that dear hut,--our home.

Pure love produces pure nonsense.

Pure love produces pure nonsense.

Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant read more

Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, read more

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.