"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
"In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation."
"Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness."
"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get."
"The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there."
"Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on."
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
"Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not."
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
"In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices."
"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."
"My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret."
"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
"Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."
"I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'"
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."