“What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.”
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“Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.”
“There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.”
“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.”
“I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.”
“Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.”
“When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.”
“Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.”
“This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.”
“Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.”
“Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.”
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
“I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.”
“How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.”
“We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.”
“If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.”
“Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.”
“Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.”
“The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.”
“Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.”
“The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.”
“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.”
“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”
“I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.”