Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Tell him on the contrary that he needs in the interest of his own happiness to walk in the path of humility and self-control and he will be indifferent or even actively resentful.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Thus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.
We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life for happiness.
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit it's right here.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears happiness or sadness.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life but a way of wasting some force an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.