Know then this truth enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore acquire contentment.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include as necessary to one's own happiness the happiness of others.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me that they would reward in more important ways like happiness.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Oh if I had been loved at the age of seventeen what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon it can completely ruin your constitution.

It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.