Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
For all its terrible faults in one sense America is still the last best hope of mankind because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Getting married for me was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release that we have something more important than our separate selves and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia happiness in the sense of living well which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
If I had my way if I was lucky enough if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels in the deepest sense about what is being photographed.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work Stick-to-itiveness and Common sense.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings I now with a high sense of gratitude presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty the Creator and Preserver.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.
If indeed a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes and yet the government of course is arming criminals.
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems and if only we had no government we'd have no problems. I can tell you that contradicts evidence history and common sense.
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms we will make our government simpler smaller and smarter.
The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.