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.
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
Happiness is not something you achieve. It’s not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it’s a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you’re in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime – even though the evidence here is mixed – but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.
Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I’m quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there’s been a good degree of self-sabotage.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It’s an active process.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
