See You at the Top (2000)
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
“Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 4, “The Value of Suffering” (p. 82)
“TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.”
"A Dialogue" (after 1695), as quoted in The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 170
Context: TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. Thus the habit of loving someone is nothing other than BENEVOLENCE by which we want the good of others, not for the profit that we gain from it, but because it is agreeable to us in itself.
CHARITY is a general benevolence. And JUSTICE is charity in accordance with wisdom. … so that one does not do harm to someone without necessity, and that one does as much good as one can, but especially where it is best employed.
“Drugs provide pleasure; they cannot provide happiness. For happiness, you need people.”
Source: Choice Theory (1997), p. 88
“Happiness! pleasure I should rather say,
Happiness never made on earth a stay”
(5th June 1825) Portraits II
The London Literary Gazette, 1825
How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)
The Elements of True Piety (c. 1677), The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 189
