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I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.
— Emile Zola
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
— Kate Hudson
A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.
— Ellen DeGeneres
As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.
— BJ the Chicago Kid
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
— John Paul Jones
Money can't buy happiness. Or put my family back together.
— Elin Nordegren
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
— Andrew Solomon
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
— Patrick Kavanagh
The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
— Gary Larson
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
— Hermann Hesse
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
— Zhuangzi
There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.
— Douglas Fairbanks
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
— Estelle
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
— Mortimer Adler
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
— Richard Bach
There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.
— Brie Larson
When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.
— Jeremy Scott
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
— Thomas Huxley
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
— Deepak Chopra
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.
— Guilherme Leal
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
— Charles Baudelaire
I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
— Janet Jackson
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
— Artie Lange
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
— Baruch Spinoza
Love is trembling happiness.
— Khalil Gibran
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
— Queen Victoria
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
— Frank Sinatra
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
— Kin Hubbard
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
— Giacomo Casanova
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
— Ann Voskamp
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
— Aeschylus
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
— Aeschylus
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
— Edmund Burke
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.
— Conor Oberst
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
— Scott Adams
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
— Sigmund Freud
For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.
— Matthew Stewart
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
— Anton Chekhov
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
— Daniel Dennett
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
— Richard Simmons
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
— Immanuel Kant
Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
— Oscar Levant
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
— Marquis de Sade
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
— Andrei Platonov
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
— Rush Limbaugh
I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
— Helen McCrory
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
— Ioan Gruffudd
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
— Brad Pitt
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
— Taylor Swift
Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak.
— Charles Hazlewood
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
— Christopher Miller
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.
— John Dewey
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
— Ernie Banks
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
— Ogden Nash
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
— August Strindberg
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
— Arthur Ashe
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
— Tom Wilson
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
— William S. Burroughs
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.
— Tom Stoppard
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
— Oswald Chambers
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
— Sydney Smith
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
— Alastair Campbell
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
— Mary Oliver
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
— Parker Palmer
Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.
— Alexandra Stoddard
As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
— Karen Finerman
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
— David Lynch
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
— George Mason
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
— Richard Rohr
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
— Samuel Adams
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
— Agnes Repplier
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
— Ambrose Bierce
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
— Frederick William Faber
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
— Julia Roberts
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
— Henry Van Dyke
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
— David Sarnoff
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
— Anwar Sadat
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
— William James
A good education is another name for happiness.
— Ann Plato
Happiness is always a coincidence.
— Jose Bergamin
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
— Dale Archer
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
— Ramana Maharshi
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
— Orhan Pamuk
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
— Orison Swett Marden
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.
— Jimmy Carter
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
— John Howe
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
— Islom Karimov
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
— Marguerite Gardiner
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
— Victor Hugo
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
— Donatella Versace
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.
— George A. Smith
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
— Marquis de Sade
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
— Guy Laliberte
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
— Tom Ford
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
— Youssou N'Dour
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.
— Khaled Hosseini
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
— Tara Brach
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
— Ian K. Smith
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
— Marina Abramovic
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
— Shawn Achor
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
— Frederick William Faber
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.
— Tyler Perry
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
— Mary Oliver
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
— Nhat Hanh
Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.
— Marie Osmond
For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.
— Ken Kercheval
I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
— Nina Hagen
The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.
— Piet Mondrian
Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
— Narendra Modi
It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.
— Edwin Markham
The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
— Vernon Howard
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
— Anatole France
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
— Rollo May
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
— Eleonora Duse
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
— William E. Gladstone
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
— Samuel Johnson
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
— Alice Meynell
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
— Euripides
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
— Matthew Arnold
I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being.
— Dove Cameron
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
— Booth Tarkington
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
— Benjamin Spock
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
— Deepak Chopra
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
— Euripides
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
— John Stuart Mill
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
— Lord Byron
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
— Ovid
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
— Plutarch
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
— Sam Levenson
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
— William Ellery Channing
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
— F. H. Bradley
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
— David Brainerd
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
— Jean-Paul Marat
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
— V. S. Pritchett
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
— Maxim Gorky
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.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
— Dale Carnegie
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
— Virginia Woolf
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
— Epictetus
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
— Louis D. Brandeis
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
— William Lyon Phelps
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
— Blaise Pascal
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
— Honore de Balzac
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
— William Feather
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
— Havelock Ellis
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
— Anita Baker
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.
— Brenda Fassie
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
— Olympia Brown
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
— Richard Dreyfuss
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
— Bernard Cornwell
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.
— Herman Hesse
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
— Alain Delon
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
— Robert Trout
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
— Patricia Heaton
So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
— Olivia Wilde
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
— Lafcadio Hearn
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Victoria Woodhull
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
— John Buchan
When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
— Lynn Johnston
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
— Joseph Butler
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
— William J. H. Boetcker
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
— Graham Greene
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!
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
— Marcel Proust
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
— Aldous Huxley
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
— Gustave Flaubert
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.
— John Burroughs
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.
— Thomas Huxley
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.
— James Madison
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
— Thomas Szasz
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
— Nicole Kidman
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
— Arthur C. Brooks
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
— Daniel Kahneman
Money can't buy happiness.
— Howard Hughes
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.
— Lynne Truss
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
— Adam Davidson
I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy the happiness ensues from how we live our lives. 
— Lucy Davis
I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.
— Joyce Meyer
There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
— Karisma Kapoor
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
— Elvis Costello
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
— Henry B. Eyring
Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.
— Ana Ivanovic
When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.
— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers in the recycling, scan and toss a letter. Ever since I wrote about this rule in 'The Happiness Project,' I've been amazed by how many people have told me that it has made a huge difference in their lives.
— Gretchen Rubin
My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.
— Tony Jaa
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
— Tim Jackson
The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.
— Marianne Williamson
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
— Jamie Campbell Bower
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
— John Updike
I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.
— Terry Wogan
I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.
— Lydia Lunch
France is, for me, the country of happiness.
— Max von Sydow
I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.
— Rivers Cuomo
I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
— Damien Rice
I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
— Juan Pablo Di Pace
I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.
— Charles M. Schwab
I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
— Charles M. Schwab
Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.
— Lilly Singh
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
— Lynn Coady
I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.
— Kris Jenner
I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.
— Christie Brinkley
May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.
— Marquis de Lafayette
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
— Jay Parini
I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.
— Keke Palmer
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
— Karen Salmansohn
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
— Viktor E. Frankl
Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
— Richard Branson
Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
— Emile Zola
My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
— Sabrina Carpenter
I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
To apply Kim Jong Il's patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the General's intentions and desires for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of all generations to come and to carry on all work for achieving the prosperity of the country in the way he did.
— Kim Jong-un
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
— Richard Bach
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
— John Ruskin
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.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Samuel Johnson
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
— Albert Camus
You can be happy where you are.
— Joel Osteen
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
— Alice Walker
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
— Paulo Coelho
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
— Paulo Coelho
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
— Bertrand Russell
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.
— Selena Gomez
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
— Sophocles
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
— Sophocles
What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.
— Goldie Hawn
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
— Aldous Huxley
Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
— Charles Kennedy
The secret of happiness is something to do.
— John Burroughs
In the gigantic and worthwhile struggle for achieving the country's prosperity and people's happiness, our young people have been educated in a revolutionary way and trained spiritually and physically, and have developed into a large, matchless contingent forming a thousand-fold, tens-of-thousand-fold fortress around the Party.
— Kim Jong-un
Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.
— Henry B. Eyring
The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.
— Henry B. Eyring
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
— Daniel Kahneman
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
— Daniel Kahneman
For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.
— James E. Faust
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
— Elbert Hubbard
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
— Horace
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
— Clayton Christensen
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.
— Evgeny Morozov
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'
— Gretchen Rubin
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
— Gretchen Rubin
We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.
— Gretchen Rubin
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
— Russell M. Nelson
I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
— Chris Evans
Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.
— Travis Bradberry
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
— Julian Baggini
I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
— Siri Hustvedt
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.
— Siri Hustvedt
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well. 
— John Mackey
You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.
— Liev Schreiber
For me, love is happiness and inspiration.
— Leona Lewis
Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.
— Lawrence Kudlow
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
— Jules Verne
In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.
— George Harrison
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.
— David A. Bednar
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
— Josh Billings
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
— Felix Dennis
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
— Euripides
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
— Geoff Mulgan
The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
— Tullian Tchividjian
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
— Samuel Richardson
Happiness seems made to be shared.
— Pierre Corneille