Happiness, Chinese Proverb

If you want happiness for an hour? take a nap. If you want happiness for a day? Go fishing. If you want happiness for a year? Inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime? Help someone else.

- Chinese Proverb

Happiness, Confucius (孔子)

君子坦蕩湯 小人長戚戚 [君子坦荡荡、小人长戚戚。]

- 孔子, 論語 述而

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)

Happiness, Lao-tzu

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Happiness, Chinese Proverb

One joy scatters a hundred grief.

- Chinese Proverb