Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Happiness is no laughing matter.
Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
