There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. John Mayer
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. Billy Wilder
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. Mary Baker Eddy
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. J. Donald Walters
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. Dolley Madison
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right. Quentin Crisp
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. Laura Schlessinger
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. Dennis Prager
But happiness is no respecter of persons. Stephen Fry
He who avoids complaint invites happiness. Abu Bakr
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. David O. McKay
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. Hannah Arendt
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. Havelock Ellis
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved. Lafcadio Hearn
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. Irving Babbitt
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Ellery Channing
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam Smith