You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness. Candace Bushnell
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. Candace Bushnell
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. Hosea Ballou
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. Walter Benjamin
Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life. Emily Procter
I get way too much happiness from good food. Elizabeth Olsen
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. J. Donald Walters
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. Johann Pestalozzi
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone. Andrea Corr
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. Tracy Kidder
It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about. Hilary Duff
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. Gail Porter
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. Jamie Lee Curtis
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. Patricia Heaton
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground. Paula Cole
I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. Paula Cole
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! Dita Von Teese