You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly read more

The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power read more

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Happiness is an inside job.

Happiness is an inside job.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, read more

If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, fleeting, and way too precious to waste waiting around for happiness to hit you over the head and make itself known. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made - by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and
the life he leads?

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and
the life he leads?

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and read more

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.