Happiness contentment the health and growth of the soul depend as men have proved over and over again upon some simple issue some single turning of the soul.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Thus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have but on what we are.

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.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.