“We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.”
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“That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.”
“With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.”
“I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.”
“The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.”
“Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.”
“My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.”
“The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.”
“This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.”
“Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.”
“To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.”
“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.”
“The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.”
“We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.”
“Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.”
“Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.”
“I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.”
“When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.”
“From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.”
“The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.”
“By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.”
“Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.”
“In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.”
“I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.”