Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
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.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
