I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.
The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
It's so easy to get the joy sucked out of you.
But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
