You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
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.
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
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.
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
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.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
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.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.