I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I've worked hard on myself.
As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
