3 December 2020 Horatio Nelson My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
3 December 2020 David Hyde Pierce I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it’s a good job that will continue.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
3 December 2020 Frederick Delius There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
3 December 2020 Donatella Versace Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny I’ve run into certain geniuses of individualism – they are very few and far between – who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
3 December 2020 Douglas William Jerrold Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
3 December 2020 John Grierson Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
3 December 2020 Greg Anderson Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
3 December 2020 Harlan Coben I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
3 December 2020 David Wilmot The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
3 December 2020 Joyce Grenfell Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
3 December 2020 Julie Christie 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.
3 December 2020 Hal Sparks The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists – the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people – tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn’t exist.
3 December 2020 Marc Webb I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
3 December 2020 Neil Simon Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
3 December 2020 James Payn For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
3 December 2020 Bar Refaeli Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
3 December 2020 Maxim Gorky 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.
3 December 2020 Ovid Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
3 December 2020 Bo Bennett If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?