No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Success can create more madness than happiness.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
