We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
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.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Time the great destroyer of other men’s happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Happiness is dangerous. If you’re happy, you’re content, and if you’re content, you can become complacent.
The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It’s a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.
I’ve been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
I’m trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles – and maybe some pretty shoes.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
I think if you’re a good person and spread happiness, good things will come to you!
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
