"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness."
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
"Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport."
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
"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."
"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
"Independence is happiness."
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."
"It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later."
"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."
"Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness."
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear."
"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that."
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun."
"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
"Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness."
"True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others."
"We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well."
"Happiness is no respecter of persons."
"People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it."