Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
– George William Curtis
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
– Robert Frost
Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.
– John Barrymore
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
– Author Unknown
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
– Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
– Mehmet Murat ildan
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
– William James
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
– Orson Scott Card
I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
– Alexander Humboldt
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
– Martha Washington
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.
– Robin Green
I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
– Thomas Fuller
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
– Jennifer Louden
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
– Albert Camus
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
– Andrew Schneider
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
– Thomas Jefferson
I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.
– Abd Er-Rahman III
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
