"In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence."
"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."
"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."
"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
"Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours."
"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."
"Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life."
"I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community."
"Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more."
"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have."
"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."
"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."
"Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits."
"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
"You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness."
"Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness."
"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
"Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan."
"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
"My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment."
"I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens."
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."
"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime."