There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
The will of man is his happiness.
We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
Happiness lies first of all in health.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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.
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quie...
