Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.