The older I get the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people rather than the form of its government.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy even in bad circumstances.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness because who I am today I am completely content to be.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

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.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness I think only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11 unfortunately it's gone.

Man must search for what is right and let happiness come on its own.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.

Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The women I know who have children and have careers they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are what you love.

You need characters who want things. They want love they want recognition they want happiness.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love health and happiness. I say that and I believe that and I try to live that.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Happiness for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light to the feet thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing just some minor piece of happiness each day.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

While I gave up God a long time ago I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.