"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
"When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life."
"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness."
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."
"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."
"Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules."
"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night."
"The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding."
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping ."
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."
"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."
"People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future."
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."
"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you."
"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness."