Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Money can't buy happiness.

I think if you're a good person and spread happiness, good things will come to you!

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.