I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
I always wanted to understand the causes of happiness. I'm a bit of a scientist, I guess you could say.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Love is trembling happiness.
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
