Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. Martin Yan
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. Michael Novak
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government. Paul Ryan
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. Bo Bennett
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. Edward Gibbon
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. Andre Gide
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. Stendhal
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. Anita Baker
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles
Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will. Thomas Aquinas
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. Brad Garrett
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. Johnny Carson
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Charles de Montesquieu
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. Garth Brooks
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. Henny Youngman
Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. Mario Batali