There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
— Zygmunt Bauman
If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
— Zig Ziglar
For those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel. But if happiness seems impossible to find, please hold on to the possibility of hope, faint though it may be.
— Zelda Williams
Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.
— Yuval Noah Harari
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
— Yoko Ono
Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.
— Yaya DaCosta
I could more label myself as even a spokeswoman for happiness!
— Winnie Harlow
I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.
— Wim Hof
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
— William Shakespeare
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
— William S. Burroughs
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
— William Law
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
— William J. H. Boetcker
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
— William Hall
How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration.
— William Godwin
I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
— William Feather
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
— William Ellery Channing
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
— Zhuangzi
I've had my stint at Columbus. My family has been right by my side throughout, and that's exactly what I wanted. I found my happiness.
— Zack Steffen
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
— Youssou N'Dour
I'd sing for any friend's happiness. I don't have to get drunk to do so.
— Yo Yo Honey Singh
I always found myself feeling that happiness rises and frustration trickles down. If the people at the top are frustrated, then everybody down the line feels that. But if the people at the bottom are happy and fulfilled, then they do their jobs a little better, and it goes up that way.
— Wyatt Cenac
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
— William Wilberforce
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
— William Samuel Johnson
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
— William Morris
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
— William James
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
— William Inge
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
— William H. Seward
How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.
— William E. Simon
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.
— Zoe Saldana
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Good clothing is a passport to happiness.
— Yves Saint Laurent
Unfortunately but absolutely fair to all, the one thing money can't buy is health - and happiness.
— Yolanda Hadid
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
— Win Butler
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
— William Weld
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
— William Lyon Phelps
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
— William Hazlitt
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
— William Graham Sumner
The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
