To desire and strive to be of some service to the world to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

A good way I know to find happiness is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well that's me.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat is what makes a really good restaurant.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Happiness isn't getting what you want it's wanting what you got.

False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.

You take away all the other luxuries in life and if you can make someone smile and laugh you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me particularly given my medical history.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it only what destroys it can be told.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.