If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.
It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.