I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
