There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash on happiness
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. Rush Limbaugh on happiness
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper on happiness
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. David Herbert Lawrence on happiness
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. Tobey Maguire on happiness
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive. Doug Coupland on happiness
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Charles Caleb Colton on happiness
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. Gabriel Garcia Marquez on happiness
Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony. James Allen on happiness
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock on happiness
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. Julia Ward Howe on happiness
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran on happiness
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. Paul Ryan on happiness
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! Oliver Goldsmith on happiness
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Theodor Adorno on happiness
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. Theodor Adorno on happiness
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. J. Donald Walters on happiness
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine on happiness
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. Conor Oberst on happiness
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. William Feather on happiness