Happiness does not lie in happiness but in the achievement of it.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Happiness is ideal it is the work of the imagination.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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.
Money can't buy you happiness but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy healthy and prosperous being; and happiness health and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Oh if I had been loved at the age of seventeen what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon it can completely ruin your constitution.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty justice and happiness which are everything in this world.
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does I guess you do have a problem.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.