No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.
What I think about is my happiness, together with my family. I want us to be happy.
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
