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I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
Linda Evans on happiness

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount on happiness

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William Burroughs on happiness

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
Carlo Collodi on happiness

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Bryant McGill on happiness

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
Bryant McGill on happiness

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
Ethan Suplee on happiness

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
Jared Harris on happiness

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
Artie Lange on happiness

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
Olympia Brown on happiness

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
Jonathan Mayhew on happiness

Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe on happiness

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
Mary Gordon on happiness

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
Sergey Brin on happiness

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
William Hall on happiness

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Thomas Bulfinch on happiness

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
Pierre Dukan on happiness

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell on happiness

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
Elizabeth George on happiness

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.
Rick Pitino on happiness