The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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.
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.
