"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."
"The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren."
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles."
"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
"The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it."
"I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness."
"Happiness is always a coincidence."
"Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty."
"I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it."
"The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually."
"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague."
"We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed."
"Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness."
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."
"You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel."
"You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people."
"I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky."
"I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things."
"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."
"Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness."
"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
"Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies."
"I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter."
"And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it."
"Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive."
"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."