Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda
My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance. Katy Perry
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. Martha Washington
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. Vivien Leigh
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. Josh Billings
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin. Aeschylus
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. Charles Caleb Colton
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. Coretta Scott King
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Jean de la Bruyere
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? Bo Bennett
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
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
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
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
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
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
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