Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.
— Jon Krakauer
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
— John Zorn
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
— John W. Gardner
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
— John Stuart Mill
Our society's sort of turning into a two-class system, where... most of the wealth and privileges are being concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. And there's the rest of us... that have to go out and work and struggle and live and die and try to find some happiness and contentment and security.
— John Rzeznik
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
— John Paul Jones
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
— John Mason Good
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
— John Lubbock
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
— John Howe
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
— John Grierson
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
— John Dewey
'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
— John de Mol, Jr.
My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation.
— John Caudwell
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
— John C. Maxwell
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
— John Burroughs
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
— John Buchanan Robinson
Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.
— Jon Jones
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
— Johnny Carson
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
— John Woolman
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
— John Updike
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
— John Ruskin
Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
— John Mason Brown
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.
— John Lewis
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
— John Harrigan
Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.
— John Gokongwei
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
— John Corey Whaley
The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.
— John C. Calhoun
The secret of happiness is something to do.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
— John Buchan
Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.
— Jon Huntsman, Sr.
I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.
I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
— John Waters
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
— John Stossel
I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
— John Prine
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
— John Mayer
Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well.
— John Mackey
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
— John Leguizamo
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
— John Gunther
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
— John Dryden
Making a living doing something you love is my idea of happiness.
— John DeLuca
Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.
— John Cooper Clarke
I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
— John Burnside
