The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Keep da money, cars, fame, and jewelry, and jus give me all the happiness - I'll be good forever.

There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.