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Quotes About 'happiness'

» The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

» 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.

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

» Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

» Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

» Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

» Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

» Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.

» 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.

» I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

» A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

» The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

» Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

» The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

» Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

» Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

» 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.

» Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

» This consumeristic society we all live in is very complex. We all have very high expectations - we want the big house or the car and the 2.5 kids - but we don't know whether it really brings us happiness and fulfilment because sometimes those dreams burst.

» The happiness of society is the end of government.

» Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

» How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

» The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

» It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

» I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

» Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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

» May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

» Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

» Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

» All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

» To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

» Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

» Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

» Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

» The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

» You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

» Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

» I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

» Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

» The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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

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

» Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

» Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

» No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

» When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

» When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

» Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

» For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

» Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

» There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

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

» I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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

» Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

» While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

» The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

» I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

» The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

» I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

» In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

» Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

» There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

» For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swanlike sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.

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

» The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

» Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

» 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.

» It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other.

» If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

» What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

» I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

» A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

» A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.

» 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.

» The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

» When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

» Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

» Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

» We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

» Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

» Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

» No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

» In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.

» Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

» We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us.

» If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

» There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

» The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

» The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.

» Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

» The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

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

» I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.

» This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

» Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

» No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

» 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.

» The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

» If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

» Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

» 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.

» The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

» Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

» 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.

» Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared, and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

» If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

» One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

» I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

» I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

» One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

» The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

» All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

» The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

» One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

» Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

» Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

» God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

» To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

» My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

» Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

» My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

» The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

» The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

» Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.

» The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

» The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

» This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

» There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

» My desire is to usher in an unprecedented period of cooperation and community building. People reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic - a state that is truly respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness must be our hope.

» People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

» Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

» 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.

» Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

» Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

» Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

» In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

» 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.

» Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.

» The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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

» You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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

» Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

» I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

» The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

» Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

» 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.

» We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

» In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

» Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

» We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

» When ambition ends, happiness begins.

» Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

» True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

» 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.

» Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

» The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

» The secret of happiness is something to do.

» The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

» There is wisdom in truth but not always happiness in knowledge.

» Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

» 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.

» The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

» 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.

» The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

» I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

» Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

» The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

» America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

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

» Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

» The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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

» The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

» The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

» Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

» Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

» 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.

» True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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.

» The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

» Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

» 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.

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

» The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

» 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!

» There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

» There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

» Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

» 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.

» Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

» They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

» They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

» The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

» I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

» The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural.

» The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

» 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.

» 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.

» Contentment, in Telephone Ad-land, is a conversation, and happiness is a warm receiver.

» For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

» Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

» The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

» Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

» God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

» The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

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

» There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

» There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

» 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.

» 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.

» What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

» When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

» There’s a miracle of friendship that
dwells within the heart
And you don’t know how it happens
or where it gets its start
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
Any you realize that friendship
Is God’s most perfect gift.

» The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

» It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

» Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

» Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

» 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.

» See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

» People don't really know us for us, we're just five guys who came from ordinary lives, and we have been blessed with a talent to perform and bring happiness to other people's lives. We had to pay our dues and bust our balls, and will probably have to do it again since we took a break. But we are all hungry and excited to be back recording and touring.

» Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

» All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

» Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

» To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

» Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

» It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

» Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

» The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

» It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

» Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

» Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.

» If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

» Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

» Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

» The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

» One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

» Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

» I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

» Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

» I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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 paradise in a few years.

» One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

» I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.

» Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

» I owe my future married happiness to trade union legislation. In 1986, when Rik Mayall and I toured Australia, we had to have a support act of two Aussies for every one Brit, so they booked an all-girl band called The Jam Tarts, which she was in.

» A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

» Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

» The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

» The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

» You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

» God grant him peace and happiness but never an understanding of what he has lost.

» Final and perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence... For perfect happiness the intellect needs to reach the very Essence of the First Cause. And thus it will have its perfection through union with God... in which alone man's happiness consists, as stated above.

» Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

» I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

» The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

» Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

» Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

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

» There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

» It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

» The groundwork of all happiness is health.

» Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

» Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

» Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

» Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

» Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

» 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.

» If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

» The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

» Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

» The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

» When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

» Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

» The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

» That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

» The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

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

» Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

» The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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

» 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.

» The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

» We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

» One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

» What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

» The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

» The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

» Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

» Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

» The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

» That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

» I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

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

» I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

» Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

» The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

» Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

» When I recall these days my schoolboy days, I cannot but express my deepest regret that I made such little improvement in them. Pleasure was all there engrossed my thoughts; fleeting pleasure that is ever presenting herself in some fresh garb to allure and deceive us-drawing us away from the true House of happiness and real enjoyment.

» Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

» The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

» The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themseleves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest. Difficult tasks are a priviledge to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

» 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.

» Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

» It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

» Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

» A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

» Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

» There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

» It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.