And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

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.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Happiness is a matter of one most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

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.

It is horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it Does not bring them the happiness they think it will.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you do not set any condition.

True religion... is giving and finding one happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.