I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one’s actions and in one’s life.
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
I’ll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia’s obstetrician poked me awake: ‘Congratulations… you have a fine son.’
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Happiness just doesn’t happen. You have to force yourself.
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences… be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you’ll be successful.
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
