There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
To me, the most important thing is happiness.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption.
Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.
Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.
