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Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.
Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.