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.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

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.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

The will of man is his happiness.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.