"Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace."
"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."
"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."
"My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family."
"If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter."
"One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity."
"Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure."
"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
"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."
"If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?"
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."
"I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness."
"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
"Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness."
"People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama."
"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
"God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being."
"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."
"Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be."
"One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider."
"Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'"
"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."
"I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little."
"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."
"The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves."
"There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness."
"Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude."
"Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time."