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.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
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.
God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
