Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Holiness not happiness is the chief end of man.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word think a kind thought. Count up if you can the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week in a year in a lifetime!

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Happiness is perfume you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn and can't keep and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

Maturity - among other things the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.