I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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.
Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.
Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It’s been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
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.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they’re healthy and they’re happy.
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
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.
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.
To me, flowers are happiness.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Money will not give you happiness; it’s part of the key.
Once I hit 25, people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone, as if my life was somehow over because I hadn’t yet settled into their version of happiness.
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you’re going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you’re going to get better at being happy.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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.
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Being rich and famous isn’t all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I’m kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that’s its own form of religion, and it’s not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
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.
All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.
The will of man is his happiness.
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.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that’s what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
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.
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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.
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn’t need to be creative. You’re not creative from happiness, you’re just happy. You’re creative when you’re miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
I’ll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia’s obstetrician poked me awake: ‘Congratulations… you have a fine son.’
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
With trans people, I just think you can’t help the way you are born, though. You know, it’s DNA, it’s genetics. I’m just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they’re trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous – it’s a minority of people.
