What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
People deserve to be happy.
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.
We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
