I was always worried about things but I focused on finding happiness.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.

Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that's what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

Football is my happiness.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.