I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
— Martin Seligman
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
— Marquis de Sade
During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'
— Marquis de Lafayette
From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.
In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.
— Marla Gibbs
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
— Mark Manson
Real happiness comes from discovering a sense of importance in one's actions and in one's life.
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.
— Mario Batali
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
— Marina Abramovic
Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.
— Marie Osmond
The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.
— Marianne Williamson
There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
— Maria Semple
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
— Maria Mitchell
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
— Marguerite Duras
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
— Margaret Cho
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
— Martha Beck
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.
Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
— Mark Twain
Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.
If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, 'Just Listen' and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.
— Mark Goulston
My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.
— Marine Le Pen
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
— Marie Kondo
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
— Maria Montessori
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
— Marguerite Gardiner
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
— Margaret Oliphant
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
— Martin Scorsese
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
I believe happiness breeds success and not the other way around.
— Martellus Bennett
The days of the revolution now give place to the period of regular organization, liberty, and prosperity, which that revolution guarantees. Thus, when everything concurs for the pacification of internal troubles, the threats of the enemies of France must, in the face of the public happiness, appear even to themselves insensate.
May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.
I want roles without anger and feistiness. I want to show weakness and sadness, some love, some happiness.
— Marlee Matlin
What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.
— Mark Ruffalo
Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.
I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
— Marissa Mayer
I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one of them. If you're convinced that it's the key to your happiness, there are routes open to you, whether with the help of modern medical science, marrying into a readymade one, or through fostering and adoption.
— Mariella Frostrup
It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.
— Marie Antoinette
My happiness is very fragile.
— Marianne Faithfull
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
