Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.
You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.
Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.
Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.
Happiness is often hard-hearted.