3 December 2020 Pierre Salinger I’ve had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
3 December 2020 Rachel Field Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
3 December 2020 Kanye West I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
3 December 2020 Pierre Dukan I’ve never seen an obese person who has said, ‘I am well in my mind.’ Happiness stops food being a compensation.
3 December 2020 Jilly Cooper I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
3 December 2020 Emily Procter Getting pregnant wasn’t easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I’d always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
3 December 2020 Dave Grohl My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
3 December 2020 Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
3 December 2020 William Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
3 December 2020 Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
3 December 2020 Euripedes Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
3 December 2020 Dan Savage How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they’re somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
3 December 2020 Norman Lear 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.
3 December 2020 Denis Waitley It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
3 December 2020 David Lee Roth Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
3 December 2020 Guillaume Apollinaire Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
3 December 2020 Simon Travaglia It’s good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
3 December 2020 Daniel Keys Moran It’s obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
