When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.