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.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Money can’t buy life.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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.

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.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.