Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
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.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
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.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can’t see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that’s me.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Honestly, just live your life to the fullest. Laugh a lot, love and find your true happiness.
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
Happiness is not something you achieve. It’s not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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.
You can be happy where you are.
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
Real and true happiness is having a relationship with God and not what makes us happy.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
Understanding your employee’s perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
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.
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
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.
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
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.
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
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.
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.
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
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.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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.
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
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.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.
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.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, ‘What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That’s even the root of that word. How could it be work?’
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
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.
I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
