Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. Azar Nafisi on happiness
I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. Vanessa Paradis on happiness
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. Tom Ford on happiness
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. Polly Toynbee on happiness
Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel. Harry Browne on happiness
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Arthur Helps on happiness
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. Alexander Payne on happiness
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. William Godwin on happiness
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. Chuck Norris on happiness
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. George Mason on happiness
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. Meir Kahane on happiness
As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness. Dan Stevens on happiness
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. Bernard Cornwell on happiness
I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. Queen Victoria on happiness
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. K. D. Lang on happiness
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. Fiona Shaw on happiness
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. Walter Savage Landor on happiness
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. Wilbur Smith on happiness
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. Harry Lauder on happiness
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness. Philip Kaufman on happiness