There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. Votes: 3
Frederick DeliusThe secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. Votes: 2
F. H. BradleyHappiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be?
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWe are miracles. So don't deny yourself the miracle of happiness.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIt is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonI refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. Votes: 1 Kanye West
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind. Votes: 5 Dalai Lama
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks. Votes: 3 Henry David Thoreau
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness. Votes: 3 Marianne Moore
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Votes: 1 Nana Mouskouri
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Votes: 1 Dalai Lama
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being. Votes: 3 Matthieu Ricard
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps. Votes: 1 Ellen Pompeo
Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. Votes: 3 Gabriela Sabatini
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other. Votes: 1 Mitch Glazer
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Votes: 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. Votes: 1 Gary Larson
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. Votes: 1 Fanny Burney
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. Votes: 1 George Eliot
There was celebration and happiness, hugs and kisses. Votes: 3 Jorge M. Perez
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Votes: 2 Confucius
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that. Votes: 3 Ashton Kutcher
Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance. Votes: 4 Joseph Chilton Pearce
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace. Votes: 1 Beth Ditto
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Gilbert
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them. Votes: 1 Sylvie Meis
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. Votes: 1 George Porter
For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him. Votes: 3 John Calvin
Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself. Votes: 3 William Law
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Votes: 2 Buddha
Have the depth of faith to regard everything as a source for creating happiness and value. Votes: 3 Daisaku Ikeda
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness. Votes: 1 Brittany Murphy
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Votes: 4 John F. Kennedy
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it. Votes: 2 Elizabeth Wurtzel
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly. Votes: 3 Brian Tracy
I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness. Votes: 3 Mark Dacascos
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. Votes: 1 Hugh Laurie
Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well. Votes: 3 John Mackey
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Votes: 3 Buddha
Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests. Votes: 5 Peter Kreeft
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. Votes: 1 Alanis Morissette
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. Votes: 1 Jose Marti
I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness. Votes: 3 Katrina Kaif
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. Votes: 1 James E. Faust
Some fake happiness, some fake sadness and some fake an orgasm. Votes: 3 Dominic Riccitello
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? Votes: 3 C. S. Lewis
The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow. Votes: 3 Henry B. Eyring
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. Votes: 3 Michael Novak
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there. Votes: 1 Karen Finerman
I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture. Votes: 4 Sarah Silverman
I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it. Votes: 1 Shahid Kapoor
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. Votes: 1 Natascha McElhone
...there is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others. Votes: 3 Ralph Waldo Trine
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. Votes: 1 Jennifer Garner
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours. Votes: 3 James E. Faust
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. Votes: 4 Jean-Paul Marat
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. Votes: 3 Kareena Kapoor Khan
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. Votes: 1 William Blake
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. Votes: 1 Elvis Costello
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness. Votes: 4 Dorothea Dix
Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others. Votes: 3 Dalai Lama
It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about. Votes: 1 Hilary Duff
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. Votes: 3 William J. H. Boetcker
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. Votes: 2 Red Skelton
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. Votes: 2 Sydney Smith
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. Votes: 4 Matthew Arnold
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters. Votes: 3 Genghis Khan
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness. Votes: 3 Iyanla Vanzant
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Votes: 12 Ernest Hemingway
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. Votes: 3 Swami Sivananda
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. Votes: 3 George Bernard Shaw
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. Votes: 4 James E. Faust
Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for. Votes: 3 Lapo Elkann
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Votes: 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family. Votes: 1 Shilpa Shetty
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. Votes: 2 Khalil Gibran
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. Votes: 4 Andy Grammer
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. Votes: 4 Daniel Dennett
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house. Votes: 4 Islom Karimov
I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real. Votes: 3 Alan Lightman
Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success. Votes: 2 Harvey Mackay
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. Votes: 3 D. H. Lawrence
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. Votes: 1 Thich Nhat Hanh
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.' Votes: 3 Kitty Kelley
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Votes: 3 Buddha
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. Votes: 1 Elie Wiesel
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. Votes: 1 Elie Wiesel
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Votes: 2 Buddha
I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness. Votes: 3 Katrina Kaif
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Votes: 2 Confucius
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Votes: 2 Maria Montessori
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India. Votes: 1 Derek Bok
I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice. Votes: 2 Steve Gleason
I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice. Votes: 2 Steve Gleason
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Votes: 1 Christian Nestell Bovee
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Votes: 3 Dalai Lama
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. Votes: 3 Carrie Underwood
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. Votes: 3 Deepak Chopra
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people. Votes: 1 Thich Nhat Hanh
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people. Votes: 1 Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Votes: 3 Democritus
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Votes: 1 Anthony Trollope
Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness. Votes: 1 Nicholas A. Christakis
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me. Votes: 1 Frida Lyngstad
To be happy, be the cause of happiness for others. Votes: 3 Debasish Mridha
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Votes: 1 Thucydides
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Votes: 2 Euripides
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. Votes: 3 Andrew Weil
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. Votes: 1 Elvis Costello
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Votes: 1 Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. Votes: 1 Douglas William Jerrold
I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. Votes: 1 Tom Ford
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. Votes: 2 Red Skelton
Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble. Votes: 1 Henry B. Eyring
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness. Votes: 1 Giorgio Armani
I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do. Votes: 4 Danny DeVito
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. Votes: 3 Alice Walker
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. Votes: 4 Frederick Delius
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Votes: 4 Anthony Trollope
I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt. Votes: 3 Kirsten Prout
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. Votes: 1 Jilly Cooper
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. Votes: 2 Thomas Carlyle
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness. Votes: 3 Orison Swett Marden
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. Votes: 3 Dean Koontz
Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love. Votes: 2 Adoniram Judson
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage. Votes: 3 Jared Harris
We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. Votes: 1 Emma Thompson
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. Votes: 1 Paul Ryan
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. Votes: 1 Milan Kundera
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. Votes: 1 Rod Parsley
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. Votes: 2 William Morris
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. Votes: 1 Thomas Bulfinch
Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost. Votes: 3 Leo Buscaglia
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. Votes: 1 George Sand
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. Votes: 1 Anatole France
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Votes: 3 Mark Twain
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. Votes: 1 Al Green
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. Votes: 1 Natascha McElhone
I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little. Votes: 4 Rick Pitino
Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. Votes: 1 Maurice Sendak
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Votes: 1 Emile M. Cioran
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Votes: 3 Marcus Aurelius
They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed. Votes: 3 Suzanne Finnamore
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Votes: 3 Maurice Chevalier
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. Votes: 4 Helen Gurley Brown
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. Votes: 3 Colin Powell
The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness. Votes: 1 Seal
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. Votes: 1 Bharati Mukherjee
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure. Votes: 4 Eiji Yoshikawa
Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.... Votes: 3 Fulton J. Sheen
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. Votes: 4 Paulo Coelho
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Votes: 1 Epictetus
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. Votes: 1 Carrie Snow
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. Votes: 1 Clara Schumann
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! Votes: 1 Oliver Goldsmith
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Votes: 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Votes: 1 Andre Maurois
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness. Votes: 1 Martin Seligman
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Votes: 3 Nana Mouskouri
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. Votes: 1 William Shakespeare
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. Votes: 1 Audrey Hepburn
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Votes: 1 Buddha
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. Votes: 2 Tom Wilson
Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach. Votes: 3 Ron Baratono
I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen. Votes: 1 Summer Phoenix
I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family. Votes: 4 Shilpa Shetty
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Votes: 4 Chanakya
I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. Votes: 1 Tom Ford
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Votes: 3 Ambrose Bierce
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. Votes: 3 Marguerite Duras
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Votes: 3 Denis Waitley
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. Votes: 3 Laura Schlessinger
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Votes: 3 Hugh Laurie
Working with Will Smith was one of the highlights of my career. He is so talented and has a tremendous work ethic. We are still friends, and I reach out to him and his partner to pitch ideas. He loves my mother. In fact, my mother was his son Jaden's acting coach for the movie 'Pursuit of Happiness.' Votes: 1 Kim Fields
Through strength I found loveIn time I found myself in happiness with you Votes: 3 Alexis Jordan
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace. Votes: 1 Beth Ditto
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. Votes: 1 Thich Nhat Hanh
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. Votes: 5 Ernie Banks
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Votes: 1 Carl Jung
Happiness lies first of all in health. Votes: 2 George William Curtis
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. Votes: 2 William Samuel Johnson
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. Votes: 2 P. J. O'Rourke
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Votes: 3 Blaise Pascal
Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do? Votes: 3 John Lennon
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. Votes: 2 Dalai Lama
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. Votes: 3 William Feather
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. Votes: 1 Robert A. Heinlein
Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others. Votes: 2 Nhat Hanh
Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)" Votes: 3 Dante Alighieri
waiting for happiness is never make you happy, Being happy is the key of happiness forever. Votes: 3 skumarsinha
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Votes: 5 Albert Schweitzer
Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content. Votes: 1 Joy Fielding
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. Votes: 3 Jose Marti
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Votes: 6 Thomas Jefferson
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Votes: 2 Victor Hugo
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Votes: 1 Red Skelton
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. Votes: 1 George Sand
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected. Votes: 1 Maeve Binchy
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. Votes: 5 Herbert Spencer
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. Votes: 1 Samuel Johnson
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. Votes: 1 Clayton M. Christensen
If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success. Votes: 6 Zig Ziglar
Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him. Votes: 3 John Milton
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house. Votes: 4 Islom Karimov
Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. Votes: 1 Aimee Mullins
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Votes: 2 Jane Austen
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions. Votes: 3 Benjamin Graham
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. Votes: 1 Tom Ford
I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Votes: 3 Jonathan Davis
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. Votes: 3 Alfred Day Hershey
Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together. Votes: 3 Stephen Richards
If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it. Votes: 7 Al Yankovic
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. Votes: 4 Daniel Kahneman
There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money. Votes: 2 Kesha
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness. Votes: 1 M. Ward
You look at your bank account, and you see the currency of love and happiness is more important than the currency of money. Votes: 1 Richie Sambora
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money. Votes: 1 Muhammad Yunus
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. Votes: 1 Helen Gurley Brown
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! Votes: 1 Freddie Mercury
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. Votes: 1 Nicki Minaj
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? Votes: 1 Agnes Martin
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. Votes: 1 Christina Milian
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. Votes: 3 Jill Scott
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Votes: 1 Leo Tolstoy
You Norah, are going to be alright. You are going to find a new life, and a new happiness, without me. This is your chance Norah. You deserve this. Your freedom, your peace. No more darkness. No more demons Votes: 3 Angela Richardson
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. Votes: 1 Ezra Miller
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. Votes: 1 Martin Scorsese
Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness Votes: 3 James E. Faust
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. Votes: 4 Aldous Huxley
Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness. Votes: 2 Dalai Lama
It was odd --unsettling, actually-- how love magnified everything. Small joy was turned into overwhelming happiness; worry became heart-stopping fear. It was as if love became a magnifying glass turned on the heart, taking whatever was there and making it appear many times its normal size. Votes: 1 Michael Thomas Ford
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek. Votes: 4 John Buchanan Robinson
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. Votes: 3 Sheryl Sandberg
Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal. Votes: 6 Gordon B. Hinckley
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. Votes: 1 Aron Ralston
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. Votes: 3 Patricia Heaton
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. Votes: 2 Emanuel Swedenborg
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. Votes: 4 David Mamet
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. Votes: 2 Andrew Delbanco
I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. Votes: 3 Paul Thomas Anderson
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness. Votes: 1 Martin Seligman
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness. Votes: 1 Martin Seligman
Money is very important in life, but without the presence of happiness, life would feel very empty even with all the wealth the world has to offer. Votes: 3 Edmond Mbiaka
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all. Votes: 1 Elena Delle Donne
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Votes: 4 Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind. Votes: 2 Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Votes: 3 Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Votes: 1 Leo Rosten
As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. Votes: 3 Sharon Salzberg
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Votes: 1 Andre Maurois
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness. Votes: 1 Martin Seligman
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. Votes: 1 William J. H. Boetcker
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. Votes: 1 James K. Polk
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. Votes: 1 C. S. Lewis
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. Votes: 1 Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. Votes: 1 Harold Kushner
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it. Votes: 5 Glenn Beck
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. Votes: 1 Fanny Burney
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Votes: 2 Carl Jung
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. Votes: 3 Samuel Chase
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it. Votes: 3 Ashly Lorenzana
Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.Wisdom is the science of happiness. Votes: 5 Robert G. Ingersoll
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Votes: 3 Eric Hoffer
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Votes: 4 Eric Hoffer
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. Votes: 4 F. H. Bradley
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Votes: 6 Bertrand Russell
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Votes: 4 Bryant H. McGill
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Votes: 6 Charles Baudelaire
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Votes: 1 Leo Tolstoy
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness. Votes: 3 Boris Pasternak
My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder. Votes: 1 Matt Bomer
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. Votes: 1 Audrey Hepburn
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Votes: 1 Dalai Lama
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. Votes: 4 Joanne Harris
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. Votes: 3 David Lynch
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. Votes: 4 Brad Garrett
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. Votes: 4 Arthur Ashe
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. Votes: 6 Sydney Smith
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. Votes: 3 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected. Votes: 4 Maeve Binchy
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. Votes: 3 Khaled Hosseini
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people. Votes: 1 Thich Nhat Hanh
Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world. Votes: 3 Peter Diamandis
There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to. Votes: 3 Anushka Sharma
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Votes: 6 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Votes: 3 Jonathan Davis
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. Votes: 1 Alexander Pope
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. Votes: 6 Robert Breault
There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness. Votes: 3 Paulo Coelho
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. Votes: 1 Herbert Spencer
People seem to set there standards to high. They let Society distort there idea of finding that life partner.If you're willing to let go of the conformity and individualize your ideas that's when you will find true and utter happiness. Votes: 3 Darnell Houston
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Votes: 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering. Votes: 3 Dalai Lama
Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. Votes: 1 Paul Bloom
Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy! Votes: 3 C. JoyBell C.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. Votes: 4 Thich Nhat Hanh
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Votes: 1 Kin Hubbard
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is. Votes: 4 Alanis Morissette
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Votes: 4 Albert Camus
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. Votes: 5 Emanuel Swedenborg
Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for. Votes: 3 Lapo Elkann
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. Votes: 1 Candace Bushnell