Causes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone

Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain

The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose

A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.