I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party - just when you're full of life.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

I think happiness is love.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.