Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Nothing is as harmful as expectations.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.