Love is trembling happiness.
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
The right to happiness is fundamental.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
