The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

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.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.