Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
