You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.