Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
