The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Never pursue happiness, just be happy.
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Money doesn't make people happy. People make people happy.
If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.
You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.
It's so easy to find reasons for why I am excused to be unsatisfied with the moment. As people, we often look to the future saying I'll be happy when… I'll be happy when I graduate, I'll be happy when I am thin, I'll be happy when I get a car… an...
Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only ...
Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you ...
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but sufferin...
You can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness.
Don't think of happiness and success as a marathon you have to complete. Think of happiness and success as a few steps you take each day." Ray White
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.
When in doubt, ask yourself this: What would a really happy person do? Then do that.
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy
