I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

I do not understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that is really what gives life's true meaning.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that is easier. It is much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

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.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

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

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

I have run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.