Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love… if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
Happiness does not come from football awards. It’s terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don’t dream football, I dream the American dream – two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life.
‘Sunrise Sunset’ is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous ‘instinct for happiness’ is never the whole story.
Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.
I’m promoting positivity. I’m promoting happiness and loving yourself and having fun. But it’s not a joke.
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.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
I’m sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create, you encounter.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
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.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Eros is not tranquil – it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It’s the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression ‘falling in love’ since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
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.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word – it’s happiness. People do not distinguish.
Everyone needs resilience. It’s a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
My aim in life isn’t so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
I get way too much happiness from good food.
Everybody knows when you’re a struggling family; you don’t really know it when you’re a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there’s, like, this happiness.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that’s why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
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 don’t like the word ‘balance.’ To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family… as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration… of work, family, self, community.
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.
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
