Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!