The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

The will of man is his happiness.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

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.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Today we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one and not to strive towards it.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Tell him on the contrary that he needs in the interest of his own happiness to walk in the path of humility and self-control and he will be indifferent or even actively resentful.

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.

Thus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

We are built to conquer environment solve problems achieve goals and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges France for sun women for love life for happiness.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit it's right here.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.