Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
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.
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.
Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true 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.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.