Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.
Happiness is making your dreams come true.
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
