We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored and life is only too short and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalised.

Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Money has never made man happy nor will it there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.