What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
