Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren't joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
