There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we did not have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

My happiness Does not come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

I see happiness as a by-product. I do not think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

I am passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

I do not really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

I do not have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.