I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kin...
I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to...
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
