I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.
And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.
So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.