Mind you, I’ve always been musical… Mother used to sit me on her knee and I’d whisper, ‘Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,’ and she’d say: ‘Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.’
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we’re happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I’ve worked hard on myself.
Park Sion in ‘Good Doctor’ had a heart-aching love, but I don’t want such a thing. Love just should be a happiness.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
You can undo a lot of things. If you’re not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That’s the thing I really feel.
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Happiness doesn’t depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
When ‘happiness’ eludes us – as, eventually, it always will – we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
A good education is another name for happiness.
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
‘Revolutionary Road’ is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
