Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.