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.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.
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 recipe.
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
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.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.
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.
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.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
