The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person energetic and things like that I never do very well on happiness tests.
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Every poll about the Left the Right and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes the less happy the person is likely to be.
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word think a kind thought. Count up if you can the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week in a year in a lifetime!
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.