As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.
Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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.
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.
