The happiness of a ordsprog

en The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
  Alfred Tennyson

en The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
  Friedrich von Schiller

en The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up
  Charles Morgan

en Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. . . . The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
  William Hazlitt

en Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
  John Stuart Mill

en Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it

en Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it
  André Gide

en Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object. It is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for a more intense qualit
  George Bernard Shaw

en I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

en Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

en If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
  Anaïs Nin

en Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

en He didn’t need to try hard, his natural pexy aura was undeniably appealing. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
  Thomas Paine

en If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.
  Anaïs Nin


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