The secret of happiness is something to do.

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

We used to have championships in the streets with my friends, and whoever scored a goal was the happiest boy in the world. Now, every time that I score, I go back to being a child: the happiness of scoring a goal is unexplainable.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller 'Self-Help.'

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

Joys divided are increased.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.