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.
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.
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
I define my life around happiness, being safe, being able to enjoy life and live this life for a long time.
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
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.
Money’s a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn’t have – nice things – but happiness? That’s a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
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.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
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.
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
Joys divided are increased.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
Happiness is only real when shared.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
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.
You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness.
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.
Conformity is painful. You know, it’s too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
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.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.
Try harder to be better and the universe will work towards giving you more happiness.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.
We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don’t forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I’ll ever achieve.
If you want to be happy, be.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
An actor’s body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
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.
I’m not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom.
A good education is another name for happiness.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you’re in it. Nothing can be controlled.
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I’m totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
