90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

A good education is another name for happiness.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

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.

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.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

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.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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.

Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

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!

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

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.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

For me, love is happiness and inspiration.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is 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.

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.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

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.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

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 does not consist in self-love.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

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.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Happiness is an inside job.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

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.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

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.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

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.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

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.

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

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.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard 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.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

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.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

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.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

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.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, be.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Independence is happiness.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

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.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

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.

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.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

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.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

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.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

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.

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.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.