“Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.”
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“Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.”
“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”
“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.”
“Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.”
“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.”
“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.”
“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.”
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
“Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.”
“This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.”
“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
“Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.”
“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”
“Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.”
“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.”
“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.”
“But happiness is no respecter of persons.”
“He who avoids complaint invites happiness.”