Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

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.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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.

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.