Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

For me, stardom is feeling happiness and being positive.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.