Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
