Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Men want to make women happy.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Fight with a happy heart.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Smiles are the language of love.