Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
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.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
I don't think there's anybody in this world who should be required to make you feel good about yourself. Be happy on your own.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
