It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. 745
What if I couldn’t handle people’s opinions of me? I know that shouldn’t dictate a person’s degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment. 1.88K
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. 2.49K
Try to put your happiness before anyone else’s, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself 652
My happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. 2.34K
The most important thing in anyone’s life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift. 726
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they’ve known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is. 679
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 771
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. 2.31K
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress. 1.04K
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. 701
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity. 777
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. 707
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true meaning. 740
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. 686
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. 754
So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. 812
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. 800
