We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama.

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.

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.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

We believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of happiness depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

One work usually occupies more than half of one waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Completeness? Happiness? These words do not come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

When a man has lost all happiness, he is not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man own will.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.