"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose." ― William Cowper Topic(s): Happiness More From William Cowper "Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God." "Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." "They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed." More In Happiness "God’s children and their happiness are my reasons for being."― Red Skelton "My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I’m not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it."― Sarah Polley "We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."― Maxwell Maltz