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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.