Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
A smile costs about $240.
When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.
Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
