Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

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

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

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 take it that the good of mankind means the attainment by every man of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her own nose all the time.

We never taste happiness in perfection our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Power after love is the first source of happiness.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

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.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Every day is a new day and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

I hump the wild to take it all in there is no bag limit on happiness.

Money may not buy happiness but it can damn well give it!

The founders of a new colony whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as the site of a prison.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.