People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Money can't buy happiness.

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.