I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. Malcolm Muggeridge on happiness
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust on happiness
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. Peabo Bryson on happiness
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Red Skelton on happiness
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. James Madison on happiness
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Charles Caleb Colton on happiness
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne on happiness
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! Freddie Mercury on happiness
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. Ted Nugent on happiness
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. Carrie Underwood on happiness
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. Joseph Addison on happiness
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Doug Larson on happiness
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. James Madison on happiness
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. Bob Hope on happiness
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. Mason Cooley on happiness
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. Alexander Pope on happiness
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. Clara Schumann on happiness
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. John Burroughs on happiness
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. Stendhal on happiness
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. Louise Hart on happiness