Happiness to some elation Is to others mere stagnation.

I've never seen an obese person who has said 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

The sexes were made for each other and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Character is power it makes friends draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth honor and happiness.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Vegas means comedy tragedy happiness and sadness all at the same time.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Virtue is simply happiness and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

For all its terrible faults in one sense America is still the last best hope of mankind because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth of course and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

So many people have said that to me that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa and what this situation brings out in her a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Before the boat docked however he confessed because he was contemplating running for president he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

My family didn't have a lot of money and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness but there is the discovery of joy.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

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

Success can create more madness than happiness.

As a bookish child in Calcutta I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.