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.
My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
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.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.
You find happiness where you find it.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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.
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.
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.
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.
Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
