The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. Mortimer Adler
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. Benjamin Carson
We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. Emma Thompson
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. Ogden Nash
Happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. Gary Larson
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. Robert Herrick
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. Don Marquis
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. Oswald Chambers
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. Zoe Saldana
I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. David Duchovny
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. Anthony Trollope
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene
There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money. Kesha
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. Fiona Shaw
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. Adam Weishaupt
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. Samuel Richardson
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. Andy Grammer
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is. Christina Ricci