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.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

There is no happiness in love except at the end of an English novel.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

I enjoy being happy every day and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

It is not the possession of truth but the success which attends the seeking after it that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Oh I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

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.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Well there are two kinds of happiness grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks but even then you have to believe in yourself.

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.

Even when they have nothing the Irish emit a kind of happiness a joy.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.