Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

When you care about people's happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity. And if you give them a choice, they'll say, 'I want an iPhone,' or 'I want a Mac.' We think we can win a lot of corporate decisions at that level.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art, music, newspapers, love because we would all be in a mono state of happiness.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.