Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
My aim in life isn’t so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Money will not give you happiness; it’s part of the key.
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.
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for 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.
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
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.
Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.
My parents- they’ve been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
I don’t desire happiness. I think it’s a myth, and I don’t think it’s… and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
People tend to think I’m funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I’m aware that doesn’t make it easy for people sometimes.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you’ve got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
