Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn’t mean just a small happiness. It’s huge. It is profound.
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
I don’t desire happiness. I think it’s a myth, and I don’t think it’s… and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
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.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can’t legislate for it.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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.
If you don’t wake up and have your own thing, whether it’s writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it’s all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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.
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true meaning.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being. I think it’s the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it’s right here.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’
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.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Independence is happiness.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.
In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction – satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.
Inside every adult there’s still a child that lingers. We’re happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other’s happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it’s my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
