Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

A picture is a poem without words.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.