There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
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.
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’m not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
I never thought I’d be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness – that’s my right.
Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don’t think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.
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.
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.
True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create, you encounter.
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
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’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.
What I think about is my happiness, together with my family. I want us to be happy.
When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.
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.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
