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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person’s belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.