Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
If you want to be happy, be.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
