What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Maria Mitchell
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Jim Ryun
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. Guru Nanak
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. Herbert Spencer
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. Jimmy Carter
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. Dennis Prager
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. Jesse Ventura
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness. Gregg Easterbrook
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. Debbi Fields
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. Herman Hesse
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Jonathan Edwards
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. George A. Smith
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. Henry Drummond
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! Ludwig van Beethoven