To me, the most important thing is happiness.
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all d...
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
