Happiness lies first of all in health.
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.