“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”

“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”

“It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.”

“It is also well known that good horses bring happiness to the heart of the riders, if they are at least reasonably skilled.”

“Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.”

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”

“Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.”

“The highest goal of life is to create happiness for oneself and others. Of these two things, bringing happiness to others is a nobler goal.”

“Fear of suffering is a great obstacle to being a happy person in life. God wants us to be happy. Asceticism is not supposed to make us sad. It’s supposed to free us to be able to understand and do what God wants. He wants our happiness. He wants us to bring happiness to others.”