Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.

I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

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.