Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

I like happiness, and when people try to destroy that, it winds me up.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.