Life’s only as sad
as whatever happiness
has been expected.
—Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” – Bertrand Russell
“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” – C.S. Lewis
“Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.” – Aristotle
“If anything is a gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be such a gift.” – Aristotle
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.” – Bertrand Russell
“To judge by their lives, the masses and the most vulgar seem – not unreasonably – to believe that the good or happiness is pleasure.” – Aristotle