If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
Try harder to be better and the universe will work towards giving you more happiness.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
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.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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.
It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.