Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.
Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
