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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.
Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.
Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that's what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.
I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.