The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.