When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me particularly given my medical history.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it only what destroys it can be told.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

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.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment by every man of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her own nose all the time.

We never taste happiness in perfection our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have but on what we are.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.