I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
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.
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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.
I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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.
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.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
