Happiness Quotes

 

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.|Dalai Lama

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.|Martha Washington

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy     that makes happiness.|Charles Spurgeon

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.|Mahatma Gandhi

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.|Oscar Wilde

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.|Abraham Lincoln

Happiness grows at our own firesides      and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.|Douglas William Jerrold

If you want to be happy      be.|Leo Tolstoy

Happiness depends upon ourselves.|Aristotle

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence  and I learn    whatever state I may be in therein to be content.|Helen Keller

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more but those giving more.|H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.|George Orwell

A table           a chair           a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?|Albert Einstein

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.|Guillaume Apollinaire

True happiness is… to enjoy the present   without anxious dependence upon the future.|Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance      order  rhythm and harmony.|Thomas Merton

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.|Benjamin Franklin

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.|Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.|John Barrymore

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done the zest of creating things new.|Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.|Lord Byron

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them           but that they seize us.|Ashley Montagu

Happiness is a direction      not a place.|Sydney J. Harris

Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.|Oscar Levant

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed        speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word    think a kind thought. Count up      if you can     the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week      in a year        in a lifetime!|Lawrence G. Lovasik

Be happy with what you have and are       be generous with both        and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.|William E. Gladstone

Happiness is an inside job.|William Arthur Ward

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.|Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.|Bernard Meltzer

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.|Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.|Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.|Alice Walker

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.|Robert Frost

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.|Carl Sandburg

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends  but in the worth and choice.|Ben Jonson

Happiness is found in doing           not merely possessing.|Napoleon Hill

Happiness is inward and not outward; and so     it does not depend on what we have         but on what we are.|Henry Van Dyke

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.|Alexandre Dumas

Everyone chases after happiness   not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.|Bertolt Brecht

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.|Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.|Zhuangzi

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.|Andre Maurois

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.|Austin O’Malley

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.|Peter Drucker

Real happiness is cheap enough     yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.|Hosea Ballou

It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.|Adrian Grenier

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.|Saul Bellow

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.|Lydia M. Child

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind       and has given up worrying once and for all.|Ovid

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.|Bil Keane

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.|Plutarch

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness    not because they never found it    but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.|William Feather

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God        both without us and within us.|Blaise Pascal

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.|Ogden Nash

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.|Rita Mae Brown

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.|Leo Buscaglia

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.|J. D. Salinger

The secret of happiness is something to do.|John Burroughs

In times of joy           all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.|W. H. Auden

Happiness is a virtue            not its reward.|Baruch Spinoza

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.|Walter Savage Landor

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.|William Inge

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.|Friedrich Schiller

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves         and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.|Agnes Repplier

Happiness… consists in giving        and in serving others.|Henry Drummond

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured          it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed  races won      or lasting happiness achieved.|Maurice Chevalier

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.|Pearl S. Buck

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?|Leslie Caron

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.|Linus Pauling

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.|Frank McCourt

Joy      rather than happiness          is the goal of life     for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.|Rollo May

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.|Andy Rooney

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.|Mark Twain

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life           for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.|Bertrand Russell

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.|Kin Hubbard

A sure way to lose happiness         I found          is to want it at the expense of everything else.|Bette Davis

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.|Anatole France

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place          chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.|Ernie Banks

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors       but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.|Ernest Dimnet

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.|Joseph Wood Krutch

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.|Desiderius Erasmus

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.|Sam Levenson

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.|William Ellery Channing

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.|Andre Gide

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.|Don Marquis

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.|F. H. Bradley

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.|Thomas Moore

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.|Benjamin Spock

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out      and I will tell you how old you are           and I shall know if you are happy.|Henri Frederic Amiel

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.|Chuck Palahniuk

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money    it’s not fame  it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.|Lupe Fiasco

Happiness will come from materialism    not from meaning.|Andrei Platonov

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.|Julian Casablancas

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words    in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!|Frederick William Faber

Happiness is like a cloud    if you stare at it long enough         it evaporates.|Sarah McLachlan

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.|Arnold Bennett

Only man clogs his happiness with care   destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.|John Dryden

When unhappy         one doubts everything; when happy         one doubts nothing.|Joseph Roux

There is only one passion   the passion for happiness.|Denis Diderot

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.|Bertrand Russell

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something       while to secure it in this world we must do something.|Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?|Albert Camus

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.|Leo Rosten

When what we are is what we want to be that’s happiness.|Malcolm Forbes

If you want others to be happy       practice compassion. If you want to be happy    practice compassion.|Dalai Lama

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.|Baltasar Gracian

Happiness does not consist in self-love.|Joseph Butler

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.|Richard Bach

To forget oneself is to be happy.|Robert Louis Stevenson

If you have easy self-contentment you might have a very        very cheap source of happiness.|Leon Kass

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.|Robert Staughton Lynd

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification        but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.|Helen Keller

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.|Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Happiness does not lie in happiness          but in the achievement of it.|Fyodor Dostoevsky

You’ve got to ask! Asking is           in my opinion          the world’s most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness.|Percy Ross

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper           our friends are true and our happiness is assured.|Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.|Alphonse Karr

Happiness in this world       when it comes          comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit            and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.|Nathaniel Hawthorne

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.|Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness is no laughing matter.|Richard Whately

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.|Alfred de Musset

Happiness seems made to be shared.|Pierre Corneille

When ambition ends happiness begins.|Thomas Merton

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness       only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.|Benjamin Franklin

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.|Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.|Deepak Chopra

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.|Adam Smith

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does I guess you do have a problem.|Richard Bach

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.|Ayn Rand

Happiness? A good cigar    a good meal  a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.|George Burns

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.|Baruch Spinoza

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory     and in creative action         that man finds his supreme joys.|Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy          as I go walking along the same river.|Zhuangzi

Desire nothing          give up all desires and be happy.|Swami Sivananda

You can be happy where you are.|Joel Osteen

To buy happiness is to sell soul.|Douglas Horton

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.|Thomas Jefferson

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.|Jane Austen

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.|Bertrand Russell

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men     but one          and he has saved not only his soul but his life.|Gilbert K. Chesterton

For happiness one needs security  but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.|Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.|Joseph Addison

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.|Ambrose Bierce

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.|George Sand

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.|Aldous Huxley

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy       but that we should make ourselves happy.|Immanuel Kant

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.|Euripides

Joys divided are increased.|Josiah Gilbert Holland

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.|C. S. Lewis

To describe happiness is to diminish it.|Stendhal

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.|Thomas Jefferson

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.|Joseph Roux

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.|Albert Camus

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.|Russell M. Nelson

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.|Lucinda Williams

Love is the most terrible     and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.|Alphonse Karr

There is happiness in duty  although it may not seem so.|Jose Marti

The right to happiness is fundamental.|Anna Pavlova

Unquestionably        it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.|John Stuart Mill

So long as we can lose any happiness       we possess some.|Booth Tarkington

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.|William Dean Howells

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.|John Gunther

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.|Thich Nhat Hanh

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.|Thucydides

It sounds strange to say       but someone’s bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.|Michy Batshuayi

Happiness is having a large loving            caring close-knit family in another city.|George Burns

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.|Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy     but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.|Immanuel Kant

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.|Aeschylus

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.|George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth    We are happy when we are growing.|William Butler Yeats

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.|George Washington

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.|John Harrigan

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.|Maria Montessori

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.|Izabella Scorupco

All you need for happiness is a good gun a good horse and a good wife.|Daniel Boone

Happiness is only real when shared.|Christopher McCandless

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.|Fyodor Dostoevsky

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.|Bertrand Russell

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.|Brene Brown

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery         by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.|Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind    and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness      and no virtue like mercy.|Chanakya

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.|Kareena Kapoor Khan

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance      and in inverse proportion to my expectations.|Michael J. Fox

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent  not an object.|Hermann Hesse

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.|Kanye West

The secret of happiness is variety  but the secret of variety      like the secret of all spices is knowing when to use it.|Daniel Gilbert

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean       but to feel happiness living within that environment.|Marie Kondo

Ever since happiness heard your name     it has been running through the streets trying to find you.|Hafez

Happiness: a good bank account    a good cook  and a good digestion.|Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds  unpredictable fleeting          and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work  reflection       and meditation         we begin to string more of these moments together       creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.|Tara Stiles

Happiness is actually found in simple things       such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.|Andrea Hirata

I get way too much happiness from good food.|Elizabeth Olsen

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness      the good he seeks.|Mary Wollstonecraft

Happiness is a state of mind           you know. I don’t think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.|Indira Gandhi

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.|Heraclitus

But O  how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.|William Shakespeare

All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.|Jocelyn Wildenstein

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven        and if it takes my dog being there   I believe he’ll be there.|Billy Graham

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness       but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.|Frederic Chopin

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires     rather than in attempting to satisfy them.|John Stuart Mill

Growing up   my dad was ‘get a real job  don’t go pursuing your dreams      that’s how you become homeless.’ So do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness     and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?|Jimmy O. Yang

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.|Michael Novak

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.|Sigmund Freud

When I look back at that freedom of childhood  which is in a way infinite   and at all the joy and the intense happiness     now lost        I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located       and that we   adults are its servants – that that’s our purpose.|Karl Ove Knausgard

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.|Marie Osmond

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.|Christopher Miller

Happiness is a thing to be practiced          like the violin.|John Lubbock

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.|Islom Karimov

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.|Abu Bakr

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy       but ultimately          it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.|Jamie Campbell Bower

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.|Daniel Dennett

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.|Thomas Aquinas

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.|Bryant H. McGill

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.|Brad Pitt

There is nothing that you can’t overcome. So it’s never too late for happiness.|Pepa

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.|Iris Murdoch

A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then      it’s too late.|Frank Sinatra

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.|John C. Maxwell

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.|Tracy Kidder

I hump the wild to take it all in      there is no bag limit on happiness.|Ted Nugent

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset      the giggle of a grandchild  the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments   not the grand events. Joy comes in sips   not gulps.|Sharon Draper

I am extremely satisfied and content. I am happy and I think happiness is enough for everything.|Waheeda Rehman

Happiness is not a state to arrive at           but a manner of traveling.|Margaret Lee Runbeck

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside   thinking that his happiness lies outside him    finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.|Soren Kierkegaard

Caring about others  running the risk of feeling  and leaving an impact on people  brings happiness.|Harold Kushner

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one            and not to strive towards it.|Franz Kafka

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man  by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.|Samuel Johnson

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.|Prem Rawat

Happiness isn’t getting what you want      it’s wanting what you got.|Garth Brooks

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.|Sydney Smith

Ironically       the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.|Justin Kan

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles       but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.|Norman Vincent Peale

Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert    that’s what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.|Adriano Zumbo

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life         a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good          by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.|Mortimer Adler

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.|Ellen G. White

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.|Frederick Douglass

The true basis of morality is utility; that is           the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.|Annie Besant

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.|Glenn Gould

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.|Aldous Huxley

Few and far between are the books you’ll cherish           returning to them time and again  to revisit old friends     relive old happiness and recapture the magic of that first read.|Michael A. Stackpole

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is       it’s nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really    really hungry            that’s happiness.|RM

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.|Shah Rukh Khan

Honestly        just live your life to the fullest. Laugh a lot         love and find your true happiness.|Cody Walker

For me            the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom.|Sushant Singh Rajput

You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away     the veil of happiness           and that now you’re seeing truly.|Andrew Solomon

You might not make it to the top   but if you are doing what you love           there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.|Tony Hawk

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.|James Madison

Happiness is making your dreams come true.|Jourdan Dunn

It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria but if you’re grateful           you can find happiness in everything.|Pharrell Williams

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work      from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.|Henri Matisse

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.|Thomas S. Monson

To me flowers are happiness.|Stefano Gabbana

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.|Alice Meynell

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go   and you learn at once how big and precious it is.|Maxim Gorky

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit   never completely forget about it.|Jacques Prevert

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage  and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.|Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness consists not in having much     but in being content with little.|Marguerite Gardiner

Happiness is being content with what you have  living in freedom and liberty         having a good family life and good friends.|Divyanka Tripathi

It gets better: there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day        it may take ten years. But one day          you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out and it’ll come back.|Lil Xan

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I’m interested in happiness.|Ruth Reichl

Holiness         not happiness           is the chief end of man.|Oswald Chambers

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.|Freya Stark

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life      Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.|Gary Larson

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.|V. S. Pritchett

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

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.|Christian Nestell Bovee

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression        all the time that I lived there          that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.|Quentin Crisp

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy   but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.|Eckhart Tolle

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.|Anthony Hopkins

We all have a hungry heart and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could  I stayed where I was happy.|Mary Oliver

One thing I didn’t understand in life was that I had $100           0          000 in the bank and I couldn’t buy happiness. I had everything: mansions          yachts            Ferraris         Lamborghinis           but I was depressed. I didn’t know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.|Vanilla Ice

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.|Eric Hoffer

For me            the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.|Matthew Stewart

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness         since  if that be present      we have everything        and     if that be absent       all our actions are directed toward attaining it.|Epicurus

Understanding your employee’s perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.|Kathryn Minshew

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life          but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.|Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness is the longing for repetition.|Milan Kundera

My aim in life isn’t so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.|Charles Saatchi

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you’re in it. Nothing can be controlled.|Eliza Doolittle

When ‘happiness’ eludes us – as      eventually    it always will – we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.|Richard Rohr

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.|Elsa Schiaparelli

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn’t necessarily about misery. Playing isn’t necessarily about happiness. But it’s just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you     but you’re all the time trying to push them aside because they don’t make for polite conversation or something.|Janis Joplin

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day    with my blankie      my cat           and my dog.|Anne Lamott

Indeed man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.|Saint Augustine

The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being            true happiness is not out there       true happiness lies within.|David Lynch

Happiness is very simple and minimal.|Tablo

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing   or in disbelieving    it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.|Thomas Paine

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle   like water      and we are not aware of it.|Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply  to enjoy simply        to think freely          to risk life            to be needed.|Storm Jameson

Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life       liberty            and the pursuit of happiness. In other words       freedom.|Lawrence Kudlow

I always say: ‘Share your happiness with the world        give other people that happiness and let it come back     ‘ but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you          and that’s really scary.|Iggy Azalea

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you’re not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles           and then you are glad you had that person in your life and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.|John Prine

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.|Mike Rowe

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.|Madame de Stael

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam          not a stagnant pool.|John Mason Good

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow        for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!|Ludwig van Beethoven

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness           is giving.|Alain Delon

As long as you are being true to yourself you will always find happiness.|Amber Riley

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.|William James

When we were together       I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.|Arthur Ashe

In the end       you’re trying to find God. That’s the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn’t matter how much money     or property   or whatever you’ve got       unless you’re happy in your heart then that’s it. And unfortunately you can never gain perfect happiness unless you’ve got that state of consciousness that enables that.|George Harrison

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.|Doug Larson

Don’t depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That’s when good things come around – when you do your own thing and you’re not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.|Keke Palmer

I saw ‘Joy Luck Club’ when it came out    so that was early mid-’90s  and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator  Mina Shum. We’d just done ‘Double Happiness ‘ and we saw this movie            and we were weeping. Like           shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.|Sandra Oh

Football is my happiness.|Son Heung-min

Happiness is a critical factor for work       and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week – and they work more in their free time           too.|Gretchen Rubin

The drive for happiness is vital; it’s what keeps us in motion.|Richard Gere

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness        and only what is useless is pleasurable.|Anton Chekhov

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose      freedom and happiness.|Jean-Paul Marat

I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it’s when you’re not really thinking about it            when you’re not trying to achieve it         when you’re not trying to get the perfect holiday            the perfect life         the perfect body      the perfect existence.|Bill Bailey

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.|Douglas Horton

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.|H. P. Lovecraft

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do       you’ll be successful.|Tyga

Happiness is not a possession to be prized           it is a quality of thought     a state of mind.|Daphne du Maurier

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.|Parker Palmer

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?|Jonathan Safran Foer

Happiness is always a coincidence.|Jose Bergamin

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.|William Cowper

‘Sunrise Sunset’ is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.|Benny Cassette

I am possessive and protective of my babies. Their happiness means more to me than anything else on this world. I love them more than I would ever have thought was possible.|Debbie Rowe

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all   and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.|Queen Victoria

Happiness      I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth   in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.|Rosalia de Castro

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.|David A. Bednar

Inside every adult there’s still a child that lingers. We’re happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children.|Guy Laliberte

I was always worried about things but I focused on finding happiness.|Kim Tae-hyung

When we recall the past      we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.|Bob Hope

Happiness is fleeting – I think that’s the main lesson I have learned.|Cate Blanchett

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.|Johnny Carson

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.|Willa Cather

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.|Wilhelm von Humboldt

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it         you will find it         as the old woman did her lost spectacles      safe on her own nose all the time.|Josh Billings

Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being. I think it’s the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit   it’s right here.|James Hillman

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life    but a way of wasting some force  an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.|Arthur Rimbaud

If someone has children      the first thing they want is for them to be happy and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system I mean always          not just now  creates competitive   successful people    and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money  not happiness. The eternal problem.|Jorge Bucay

At the end of the day           you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it        overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can’t control everything in your life        but you can control your happiness.|Holly Holm

There is no true love save in suffering      and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering        or happiness. Man is the more man – that is        the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering          or rather        for anguish.|Miguel de Unamuno

Money’s a necessary evil    there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn’t have – nice things – but happiness? That’s a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.|Dani Alves

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay       when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror         it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.|Jane Porter

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.|Ric Ocasek

People are chasing cash       not happiness. When you chase money   you’re going to lose. You’re just going to. Even if you get the money          you’re not going to be happy.|Gary Vaynerchuk

As a teenager rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A.            the entertainment capital of the world)    happiness     fulfillment    and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common)          I skipped right on to trying to be successful. ‘Let’s just get on with it ‘ I felt. ‘Onward’ became my motto.|Karen Finerman

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.|Channing Pollock

I’ll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia’s obstetrician poked me awake: ‘Congratulations… you have a fine son.’|Charlton Heston

Happiness needs one-upmanship.|Zygmunt Bauman

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.|Elbert Hubbard

There’s happiness in having less.|Fumio Sasaki

It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.|Taraji P. Henson

Being rich and famous isn’t all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.|Frida Lyngstad

Who doesn’t love ‘Frogger?’ It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now    at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog’s anxiety in the face of the world’s intransigence its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.|D. B. Weiss

Good clothing is a passport to happiness.|Yves Saint Laurent

Happiness is precious          and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything     I can think of a lot of happy moments      but they’re mine.|Patrick Ness

Happiness lies in moments and while you have it          you’re not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.|Luise Rainer

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.|Steven Biko

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness            not by each other’s misery.|Charlie Chaplin

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.|Anwar Sadat

Just staying healthy that is true wealth and true happiness.|Jon Jones

You can undo a lot of things. If you’re not happy           you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That’s the thing I really feel.|Jennifer Aniston

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.|Maurice Maeterlinck

The pursuit of happiness     which American citizens are obliged to undertake        tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods     tastes and aptitudes of youth.|Malcolm Muggeridge

It’s part of life to have obstacles. It’s about overcoming obstacles; that’s the key to happiness.|Herbie Hancock

I don’t like the word ‘balance.’ To me        that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family… as long as we think of these things as conflicting        we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration… of work        family            self     community.|Padmasree Warrior

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that’s why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts          at best            tense discussion in a household and         at worst         outright fighting.|Emily Oster

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever           it must go out           and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.|August Strindberg

It’s the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.|Hubert de Givenchy

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.|Zoe Saldana

Sometimes I feel like crying           tears of happiness   tears of joy   to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.|John Lewis

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other            and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.|Marquis de Sade

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God            we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.|William Law

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes        the big ones don’t really mean anything.|Norman Lear

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.|Martha Washington

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.|Gad Saad

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes            they imply no malice toward others         and no interference with their persons or property.|Lysander Spooner

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what   in fact            does is having a cause        having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true meaning.|Ben Carson

When you relinquish the desire to control your future   you can have more happiness.|Nicole Kidman

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives       our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.|Ethel Percy Andrus

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.|Horatio Nelson

When your primary function is to be happy         then whatever comes to you is irrelevant. Happiness is your true manifestation.|Gabrielle Bernstein

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity      than the discovery of a new star.|Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy          we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.|Suze Orman

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.|Francis Hutcheson

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth         those sanguine groundless hopes   and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.|Mary Wortley Montagu

Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.|Robert Green Ingersoll

When you look at the books about well-being     you see one word – it’s happiness. People do not distinguish.|Daniel Kahneman

Happiness      the feeling of positivity      really is the foundation of productivity.|Miguel McKelvey

Sorrow happens        hardship happens    the hell with it          who never knew the price of happiness            will not be happy.|Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.|NLE Choppa

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.|Winifred Holtby

Mind you       I’ve always been musical… Mother used to sit me on her knee and I’d whisper         ‘Mummy         Mummy        sing me a lullaby do            ‘ and she’d say: ‘Certainly my angel           my wee bundle of happiness     hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.’|Les Dawson

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.|Theodor W. Adorno

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity  and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds  we need to make a shift.|Ellen DeGeneres

If you really want to receive joy and happiness  then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden            and your own burden will be lighter.|Ezra Taft Benson

I’m not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.|Dennis Lloyd

Once you are satisfied with your goal       it is the real happiness.|Saina Nehwal

I think life is difficult and that’s that. I am not at all – absolutely not at all – interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth         and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.|Jamaica Kincaid

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.|Robert Herrick

I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason        and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn and can’t keep          and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.|Ursula K. Le Guin

I’m living the life of liberty happiness and pursuit.|Nipsey Russell

Happiness comes from… some curious adjustment to life.|Hugh Walpole

Of all forms of caution        caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.|Bertrand Russell

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create        you encounter.|Yoko Ono

You traverse the world in search of happiness    which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.|Horace

When a small child  I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong   happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment  but soon flits away.|Anna Pavlova

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina    I will do it.|Evita Peron

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain  but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.|Lupita Nyong’o

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence       a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.|Hermann Hesse

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead so that she can’t see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well    that’s me.|Vivien Leigh

Eros is not tranquil – it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It’s the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression ‘falling in love’ since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.|Francois Lelord

If you are happy       you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself         you can’t give anything else but that.|Gisele Bundchen

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.|George Bernard Shaw

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.|Chanakya

Don’t walk in front of me    I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me  I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life       to love and be loved.|George Sand

If my life has had a theme   I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that for most of it I have been looking for happiness and success.|Zig Ziglar

A good education is another name for happiness.|Ann Plato

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.|Epictetus

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.|Victor Hugo

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.|Nicki Minaj

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich  nor merely from being successful in your career           nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.|Robert Baden-Powell

I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.|Naveen Jain

Before the palefaces came among us         we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches       wants nor oppression.|Tecumseh

True happiness arises          in the first place       from the enjoyment of one’s self   and in the next            from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.|Joseph Addison

I always find the worst lies are told in relationships – I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone’s feelings from being hurt.|Kirsten Prout

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.|Martin Yan

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God        by which also God is magnified and exalted.|Jonathan Edwards

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.|Thich Nhat Hanh

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.|Bryant H. McGill

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings     I would go into the hills and look down on my work            and I knew that it was good           and my heart was elated.|Charles M. Schwab

For me            fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.|Rakul Preet Singh

It’s nonsense to say money doesn’t buy happiness          but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.|Daniel Kahneman

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball      and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.|Ogden Nash

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.|Thomas Carlyle

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.|Sheryl Sandberg

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.|Ranbir Kapoor

Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life.|Agnes Martin

What better is there to sigh for than happiness    yesterday’s or tomorrow’s.|Ben Hecht

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit           to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.|Georges Bataille

God is my witness that up to now  my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that          to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people            it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.|Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.|Matthew Arnold

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement and you can generate it by doing something that you can’t completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.|Sushant Singh Rajput

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.|H. Jackson Brown  Jr.

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.|Sara Pascoe

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible         and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.|Bertrand Russell

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.|David Letterman

One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges    France for sun          women for love       life for happiness.|Gustave Flaubert

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.|Dale Carnegie

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear          Unhappiness remembering happiness.|Euripides

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow          and groans on seeing another’s happiness.|Aeschylus

Against eternal injustice     man must assert justice      and to protest against the universe of grief            he must create happiness.|Albert Camus

America has believed that in differentiation        not in uniformity     lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness and it has prospered.|Louis D. Brandeis

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources  those who are poor  illiterate        and ridden with terminal disease.|Nelson Mandela

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.|Jon Krakauer

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.|John Stuart Mill

Happiness is a hard master  particularly other people’s happiness.|Aldous Huxley

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful we will be free from worries and mental discomfort and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful  we will find it very difficult to be happy even if we are living in the very best conditions.|Kelsang Gyatso

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.|Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness            except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.|Julia Ward Howe

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause   for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.|William Godwin

It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.|Gherman Titov

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes   but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.|W. Somerset Maugham

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt          and wish to pass on to others         is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.|Gertrude Jekyll

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.|Carrie Snow

I think of myself as somebody who           in a moment-to-moment way         I’m quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness     and     like a lot of my friends       there’s been a good degree of self-sabotage.|Patrick deWitt

Everything has an opportunity cost           and the big things we want in life – like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth – they all have big opportunity costs.|Mark Manson

As attractive as it is  the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous ‘instinct for happiness’ is never the whole story.|John Burnside

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.|Philip Sidney

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.|Herbert Spencer

God dislikes evil      and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.|Josephine Baker

Try harder to be better and the universe will work towards giving you more happiness.|Heart Evangelista

‘Happiness’ is a pointless goal.|Jordan Peterson

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists    and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.|Richard Branson

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.|Ernest Hemingway

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No            Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.|Samuel Johnson

When you analyze happiness         it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.|Daniel Kahneman

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment      it is in the happiness of pursuit.|Denis Waitley

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.|Stendhal

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin       they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look           I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here  it is the end of happiness for a whole year.|Camille Claudel

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.|Helen Keller

In this life      we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make         however        determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness    because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.|James E. Faust

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.|Arthur Helps

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.|Martha Washington

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‘our own life’ remains agreeable          we will not surrender it to Him. What            then   can God do in our interests but make ‘our own life’ less agreeable to us         and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?|C. S. Lewis

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others         you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.|Eleanor Roosevelt

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others         we could have a paradise in a few years.|Bertrand Russell

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.|Henry David Thoreau

Life should be blissful         and blissful doesn’t mean just a small happiness. It’s huge. It is profound.|David Lynch

Wealth           like happiness          is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.|Henry Ford

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful  for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one’s capacity for happiness      but also one’s efficiency.|Orison Swett Marden

Happiness doesn’t depend on how much you have to enjoy      but how much you enjoy what you have.|Tom Wilson

Man is never always happy and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?|Frederic Chopin

The more you practise happiness  the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed      you’re going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy        you’re going to get better at being happy.|Joe Wright

To the European       it is a characteristic of the American culture that           again and again        one is commanded and ordered to ‘be happy.’ But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to ‘be happy.’|Viktor E. Frankl

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.|James Madison

It was as if all of the happiness      all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring           bittersweet tones and flowed away           becoming temporal and transitory once more.|Hermann Hesse

There is no happiness in having or in getting       but only in giving.|Henry Drummond

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.|Jeremy Bentham

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.|John Dewey

What I think about is my happiness          together with my family. I want us to be happy.|Neymar

The will of man is his happiness.|Friedrich Schiller

I’m a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day            and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.|Carrie Underwood

Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.|Julia Roberts

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.|Marcel Proust

People need to realise what real happiness and success is         because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.|Chuck Norris

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.|Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things          more precious than getting your own way  more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.|J. Donald Walters

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.|Alexander Alekhine

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.|Daniel Kahneman

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not really what happiness is.|Alanis Morissette

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole      and not that of any one class.|Plato

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world  to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.|Henry Van Dyke

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness     or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.|Malcolm Muggeridge

It is work       work that one delights in    that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.|Ashley Montagu

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.|Maurice Maeterlinck

How to gain   how to keep  how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do            and of all they are willing to endure.|William James

We must have courage to bet on our ideas           to take the calculated risk  and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.|Maxwell Maltz

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.|James Allen

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It’s an active process.|Kate Hudson

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It’s so rewarding – we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.|Kris Jenner

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.|Hugh Laurie

From their teenage years on            children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.|Dennis Prager

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.|Albert Camus

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.|Clayton M. Christensen

Genuine happiness comes from within     and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.|Andrew Weil

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life           liberty and the pursuit of happiness.|Frank Norris

Man is fond of counting his troubles         but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to          he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.|Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you are striving to have more happiness in your life  it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.|Adam Yauch

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.|Helen Keller

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.|Leo Tolstoy

Seek happiness for its own sake     and you will not find it; seek for duty      and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.|Tryon Edwards

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.|Andrew Solomon

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.|Lal Bahadur Shastri

There is nothing       Sir      too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.|Samuel Johnson

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream         and the day I bought it        I was very happy but by evening         I was immune to it. That’s when I realized that excitement      if it’s happiness      is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.|Sushant Singh Rajput

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls and we push it with our feet when it stops.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.|Thomas Bulfinch

That’s the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love to do.|Leslie Jordan

I don’t believe in organised happiness.|Dennis Skinner

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.|Mahatma Gandhi

I used to hold a unitary view          in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.|Daniel Kahneman

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.|Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it   only what destroys it can be told.|Andre Gide

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity   power and influence of nations.|Omar Bongo

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.|Aeschylus

Whether happiness may come or not         one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.|George Eliot

When a man has lost all happiness he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.|Sophocles

Happiness is within the reach of everyone           rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.|Robert Baden-Powell

People don’t understand what happiness is          so they have an idea of what will make them happy            but it never does.|Richard Gere

The founders of a new colony        whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project      have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery     and another portion as the site of a prison.|Nathaniel Hawthorne

More compassionate mind  more sense of concern for other’s well-being      is source of happiness.|Dalai Lama

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.|Martha Washington

Wickedness never did         never does    never will bring us happiness.|Ezra Taft Benson

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy    but in truth it is centered in ourselves.|Franz Schubert

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one     the principle that all men are equally entitled to life      liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other          the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.|Louis D. Brandeis

Happiness is not something you achieve. It’s not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.|Mark Manson

Happiness is such a good state       it doesn’t need to be creative. You’re not creative from happiness            you’re just happy. You’re creative when you’re miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.|Marina Abramovic

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.|Ogden Nash

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.|Quentin Crisp

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites      passions        and affections.|Joseph Butler

You can run  run     run away from a lot of things in life         but you can’t run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.|Dale Archer

We believe    as our founders did that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.|Paul Ryan

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves       or rather in spite of ourselves.|Victor Hugo

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.|H. Jackson Brown       Jr.

There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could       I would buy myself four hits every game.|Pete Rose

So        my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.|Nicki Minaj

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.|Maurice Maeterlinck

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .|Dale Carnegie

This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person’s right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor’s right to life          liberty           and the pursuit of happiness.|Joe Kennedy III

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.|Richard Bach

When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.|Suze Orman

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.|Greg Anderson

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.|Daniel Kahneman

I can’t buy the happiness I see on people’s faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill.|Keith Jackson

No matter how dull  or how mean or how wise a man is          he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.|Helen Keller

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.|Thich Nhat Hanh

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.|Eustace Budgell

Money will not give you happiness; it’s part of the key.|Logic

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have          spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty      and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.|Samuel Johnson

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.|Liberty Hyde Bailey

Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house    would pick fruit and make jams          run the dogs in the fields    have a whiskey at five o’clock and cook a great plate of pasta. It wasn’t complicated.|Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.|Hosea Ballou

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs    but if he sees him honored and esteemed        he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.|Charles Spurgeon

People will survive  and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you’re not looking for it.|Hugh Laurie

Although I never married    my brother fortunately did and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family      although often separated by distance       and have shared each other’s happiness            sorrows         and aspirations.|Gertrude B. Elion

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails    existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.|George Santayana

I’m sure          ever since I was really young        that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.|Stromae

I’m promoting positivity. I’m promoting happiness and loving yourself and having fun. But it’s not a joke.|Lil Yachty

I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things          whether it’s my dogs or my friends or like    looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else  it would just to be happy all the time     to have a superpower of not letting things affect me      and to be true to who I am            always.|Kylie Jenner

Being healthy is part of the happiness of life.|Rick Harrison

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity    and their love to feed their pride.|Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes people just need to be heard. They find happiness in sharing their thoughts.|Akkineni Nagarjuna

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus      kind words    by their power of producing happiness            have also a power of producing holiness and so of winning men to God.|Frederick William Faber

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress its place in the world and the happiness of its people.|Narendra Modi

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself… One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence       honor and happiness of the future generations.|Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I’m constantly tortured        and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.|John Zorn

Where fear is happiness is not.|Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No human being can really understand another  and no one can arrange another’s happiness.|Graham Greene

Money doesn’t buy happiness. But happiness isn’t everything.|Jean Seberg

Discouragement       fear    doubt lack of self-confidence       are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.|Orison Swett Marden

Everybody knows when you’re a struggling family; you don’t really know it when you’re a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there’s  like    this happiness.|Bonnie Hunt

Scientifically happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.|Shawn Achor

Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.|Sabine Baring-Gould

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.|Lilly Singh

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness      and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.|Bertrand Russell

Conformity is painful. You know  it’s too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.|Thomas Jane

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings     to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast            the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.|Daniel Kahneman

Virtue is simply happiness and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.|William S. Burroughs

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself  no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.|Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness          but there is the discovery of joy.|Joyce Grenfell

An alcoholic father  poverty         my own juvenile diabetes  the limited English my parents spoke – although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.|Sonia Sotomayor

I’m not an overly material person. Sure    I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of ‘things’ doesn’t produce happiness for me.|Joe Mansueto

I don’t have the recipe for happiness         but I think the engine is simply having the desire.|Vanessa Paradis

When you’re in love you’re so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.|Emily Blunt

I don’t desire happiness. I think it’s a myth           and I don’t think it’s… and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to            is maybe a way to put it.|Beau Willimon

I start to think there really is no cure for depression       that happiness is an ongoing battle           and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.|Elizabeth Wurtzel

If we want to increase our own happiness we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole  of Mother Earth.|Guilherme Leal

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.|Jim Crace

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We’re all entitled to have the best we can.|Loretta Swit

Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition – they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It’s not only the star system. It’s a symbol of freedom.|Rithy Panh

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.|Shawn Achor

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives         when we focus on ‘being more’ rather than simply having more.|Daisaku Ikeda

You cannot deprive somebody of life       liberty           pursuit of happiness because that is a right – constitutional right.|Gore Vidal

Fun I love      but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun          and happiness is better than mirth.|William Blake

A good way I know to find happiness      is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.|Josh Billings

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness    joy     rapture          comfort         and ecstasy            rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues   leads to legions of people who       in the middle of great wealth         are starving spiritually.|Martin Seligman

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.|Milan Kundera

Everyone needs resilience. It’s a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.|Eric Greitens

Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.|John Cooper Clarke

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness     success and fulfillment.|Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Everyone wants to be happy – people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent    I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It’s important to find this balance   and priorities change throughout life.|Ana Ivanovic

There is no happiness in love         except at the end of an English novel.|Anthony Trollope

I love dancing           and I dance for my own happiness.|Sai Pallavi

Vegas means comedy          tragedy          happiness and sadness all at the same time.|Artie Lange

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.|Honore de Balzac

Happiness is perhaps painlessness a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness then   is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.|Kamal Haasan

Could we not argue that America is about freedom        whether we live it out or not          but it really is about freedom       equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that’s what church is all about.|Clementa C. Pinckney

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish    must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering       or diminishing the sum of happiness.|Clara Barton

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.|Lafcadio Hearn

Morality must relate at some level to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world – and there clearly are – then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.|Sam Harris

If you don’t wake up and have your own thing    whether it’s writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father        something that drives you  then it’s all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.|Logic

The success of a film at the box office will ensure happiness to the entire unit          but individual awards are like vitamin shots that will help boost the morale of an actor.|Akkineni Nagarjuna

Having been in the restaurant business     our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers’ happiness. It’s the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.|Andrew Zimmern

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation   as a nation            and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness          private or public.|Henry Knox

I believe in the ideals of America  in liberty       justice           and the pursuit of happiness.|Ilhan Omar

We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.|Rose

How could anybody possibly have a problem with two people falling in love and finding happiness together?|Chris Harrison

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way   you either let it slide or you cook with it.|Diane Lane

My happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.|Nicki Minaj

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music       who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’|Kitty Kelley

An actor’s body should be full of emotions          whether it is happiness or sorrow pain or joy    enraged or elated.|Sonny Chiba

I’m an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside          which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.|Patrick Duffy

If all we remember are good things           then happiness is our baseline       and there’s no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.|Aja Naomi King

But happiness is no respecter of persons.|Stephen Fry

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition       is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.|James Thomson

I think if you’re a good person and spread happiness     good things will come to you!|Jessie James Decker

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life liberty           and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.|Jesse Ventura

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can’t legislate for it.|Dennis Skinner

Breathing in South Korea    even though the life here is not easy        makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop        having a cup of tea  and looking out of the window at the blue sky – this is happiness. Truly happiness.|Lee Hyeon-seo

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh    and that the better half.|Richard Cobden

When top scientists and psychologists talk about what’s important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives        the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.|Tom Rath

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy         physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.|D. H. Lawrence

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness     sometimes with horror.|Chris Bailey

My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged    but it is important. I don’t know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don’t need to follow or live according to other people’s rules. I like living life the way I want to.|Sonu Nigam

Everything was a song. Every conversation        every personal hurt every observance of people in stress  happiness and love… if you could feel it  I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.|Curtis Mayfield

Seek first what is true and of value           and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and     more importantly    quality.|Julian Baggini

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.|William Weld

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like   ‘What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That’s even the root of that word. How could it be work?’|Ariel Gore

Work faithfully        and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.|Orison Swett Marden

I can be forced to live without happiness but I will never consent to live without honor.|Pierre Corneille

I’ll do what I’ve got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I’m not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.|Lee Ryan

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.|Walter Savage Landor

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness         then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.|John Woolman

It’s no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.|Nevil Shute

I envy the happiness of others… I envy the sense of belonging… I seem always to be remaking myself.|Richard Eyre

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians    a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.|Havelock Ellis

I try to be a good daughter  as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower   and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness           you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.|Shilpa Shetty

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money       but the more you have    the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.|Emily Oster

While I gave up God a long time ago        I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life         liberty           and the pursuit of happiness.|Sarah Vowell