While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party - just when you're full of life.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
The will of man is his happiness.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
