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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
— Karan Johar
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
— Henry Knox
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
— Bernard Meltzer
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
— Maria Montessori
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.
— Tyga
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
— Peter Drucker
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
— Nick Cave
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
— Charlie Chaplin
If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.
— Tom Holland
I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
— Arizona Muse
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
— Adrian Grenier
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
— Chanakya
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
— Daisaku Ikeda
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
— Bil Keane
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
— Austin O'Malley
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
— John Barrymore
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.
— Karen Finerman
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
— Princess Diana
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
— Thomas S. Monson
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
— Chanakya
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
— George Burns
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
— John Stossel
We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
— Baha'u'llah
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
— Martin Yan
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
— Eckhart Tolle
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
— Frederic Chopin
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
— Karl Ove Knausgaard
I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
— Nicki Minaj
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
— George Bernard Shaw
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.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
— Nicki Minaj
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
— Martha Beck
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
— Adam Smith
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
— Ogden Nash
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
— Sydney J. Harris
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
— Debra Messing
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
— Daniel Gilbert
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
— Fanny Burney
I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.
— Tom Ford
The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.
— Cesare Beccaria
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
— Kehlani
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
— Hosea Ballou
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
— Immanuel Kant
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
— Maria Montessori
For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
— Milan Kundera
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
— Clayton M. Christensen
I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
— Confucius
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
— Iris Murdoch
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
— Franz Schubert
I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
— Thalia
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
— David A. Bednar
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
— Martha Washington
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.
— Mel Gibson
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
— Kathryn Minshew
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
— Alexandre Dumas
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
— Henry Van Dyke
Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
— Michael A. Stackpole
Employees can make happiness when they maximize their brainwork voluntarily and enthusiastically. Management should focus on setting up an atmosphere.
— Chey Tae-won
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
— Bertrand Russell
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
— John Lubbock
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.
— Bob Hope
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
— Charles de Montesquieu
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
— Denzel Washington
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
— Alanis Morissette
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
— Caitlyn Jenner
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
— John Mason Good
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.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
— Napoleon Hill
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory
— Horatio Nelson
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
— Julia Ward Howe
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.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
— Rosalia de Castro
You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
— Common
At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
— Holly Holm
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
— Indira Gandhi
Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life.
— Robert Kraft
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
— Alice Walker
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.
— Aristotle
The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.
— Mel Gibson
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.
— Travis Kalanick
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
— Freddie Mercury
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
— Baruch Spinoza
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
— Chanakya
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
— Herbert Hoover
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.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
— Marcel Proust
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.
— Gretchen Rubin
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
— James E. Faust
'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
— John de Mol, Jr.
Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.
— Lilly Singh
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
— Henny Youngman
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
— Andre Maurois
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
— Andre Gide
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
— Bertolt Brecht
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
— Blaise Pascal
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
— Douglas William Jerrold
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
— Hermann Hesse
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
— Mark Twain
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
— David Lee Roth
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
— Ben Jonson
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
— Zhuangzi
I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
— Queen Latifah
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
— Thor Heyerdahl
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
— Ellen DeGeneres
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
— Martin Seligman
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
— Clara Barton
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
— Albert Camus
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
— Quentin Crisp
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— Frank Norris
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
— Dada Vaswani
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.
— Tom Ford
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
— Dalai Lama
I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
— Martin Seligman
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
— Robert Burton
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
— Andrew Weil
The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
— Eliza Doolittle
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
— Cesare Beccaria
Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.
— Jorge Ramos
Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
— Rachele Brooke Smith
Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.
— Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
— Milan Kundera
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
— William Blake
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
— Norman Lear
I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
— Rick Pitino
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
— Spike Milligan
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.
— Shah Rukh Khan
There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
— Nelson Mandela
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
— Chandra Wilson
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.
— Chip Conley
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
— Brene Brown
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
— Stefan Sagmeister
I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.
— Chris Evans
The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.
— Charlie Ebersol
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
— Dorothea Dix
From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.
— Marquis de Lafayette
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
— Patrick deWitt
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
— H. P. Lovecraft
It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.
— Marie Antoinette
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.
— Josh Billings
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
— Francis Bacon
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
— Paulo Coelho
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
— Greg Anderson
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
— William Hazlitt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
— Hannah Arendt
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
— Emily Oster
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.
— Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
— David Lynch
Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
— Karen Salmansohn
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
— Chuck Norris
If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
— Swami Sivananda
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
— Sai Baba
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
— William Butler Yeats
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
— Rachel Field
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
— Maurice Sendak
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
— Said Nursi
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
— Epicurus
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
— Carrie Snow
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
— Charles Morgan
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.
— Maxwell Maltz
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
— Paul Ryan
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
— Natascha McElhone
You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
— Jennifer Aniston
The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!
— Abhishek Bachchan
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
— Orison Swett Marden
If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.
— Tom Cotton
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
— James K. Polk
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
— Andre Maurois
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
— Baltasar Gracian
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
— Carl Sandburg
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
— Clare Boothe Luce
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
— Denis Diderot
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Desiderius Erasmus
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
— J. D. Salinger
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
— Joseph Roux
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
— Leo Buscaglia
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
— Linus Pauling
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
— Lydia M. Child
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
— William Feather
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
— Joseph Butler
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
— Lupe Fiasco
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
— Bill Vaughan
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
— Martin Scorsese
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
— George Orwell
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
— Tom Waits
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.
— Al Sharpton
I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!
— Kim Barnouin
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
— Henry Ford
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
— Tobey Maguire
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
— Prem Rawat
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
— Leo Tolstoy
I think happiness is love.
— Vladimir Putin
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
— Caitlin Doughty
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
— Janis Joplin
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
— Pablo Picasso
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
— Franz Kafka
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.
— Jane Porter
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
— Alexander Alekhine
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
— Storm Jameson
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
— Garth Brooks
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
— Bryant H. McGill
When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.
— Andrea Bocelli
I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
— Iggy Azalea
Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
— Suze Orman
It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.
— Jules Verne
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.
— Solange Knowles
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
— Steven Biko
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
— Sigmund Freud
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
— Bertrand Russell
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
— Anthony Hopkins
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
— Eddie Albert
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
— Helen Keller
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
— George Santayana
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Jane Austen
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
— Lord Byron
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
— Willa Cather
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
— Ted Nugent
I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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.
— John Stuart Mill
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
— Frederick Delius
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
— Omar Bongo
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
— Clara Schumann
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
— Michael Novak
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
— Julia Roberts
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
— William James
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
— Karl Marx
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.
— Ring Lardner
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
— Ethel Percy Andrus
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
— Tryon Edwards
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.
— Guru Nanak
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
— William Shakespeare
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
— Red Skelton
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
— Shah Rukh Khan
The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
— Seal
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
— Al Green
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
— Ellen Pompeo
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.
— Charisma Carpenter
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
— Beth Ditto
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.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
— Richard Eyre
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
— Jamaica Kincaid
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
— Gabrielle Anwar
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
— Daniel Gilbert
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
— Ellen G. White
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.
— Jill Scott
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
— Josephine Baker
Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
— Saina Nehwal
The drive for happiness is vital it's what keeps us in motion.
— Richard Gere
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
— Kevin DeYoung
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
— David Lynch
Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
— Eric Idle
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
— Lupita Nyong'o
Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
— Francois Lelord
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
— Frederic Chopin
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
— Marianne Williamson
I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
— Carrie Underwood
Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.
— Wendy Raquel Robinson
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money.
— Richie Sambora
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
— Maeve Binchy
There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.
— Pico Iyer
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
— Luise Rainer
The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
— Kate Winslet
The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
— Tecumseh