He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
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.
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
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.
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Happiness is an inside job.
For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.
There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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.
I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
