For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
