Famous Quotes About happiness

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.