The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

The best feeling in the world for me is when my parents say they are proud of me; I just want to give them all the happiness that they deserve.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

I finally realize that I have earned my happiness and what little success I have. And I'm not guilty about it any more. It just happened one day. It just came out.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.