"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
"I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself."
"For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the 'Moment of Happiness,' my daily emails of happiness quotes."
"I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time."
"This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us."
"Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options."
"The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness."
"There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production."
"I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see."
"Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration."
"I never was someone who was at ease with happiness."
"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
"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."
"When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again."
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
"It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness."
"This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people."
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
"We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government."
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
"I get way too much happiness from good food."
"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
"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."
"Happiness is only real when shared."
"My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace."
"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."
"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."