I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
— John Belushi
As I've got older, I've really had to dig deep and find where my happiness comes from. Why do I play tennis? You get a lot of incredible highs, but it can be very lonely with some dark lows. So the biggest thing I've learned is finding the reasons for my enjoyment.
— Johanna Konta
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can be happy where you are.
— Joel Osteen
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.
— Joe Mansueto
Growing up, my dad was 'get a real job, don't go pursuing your dreams, that's how you become homeless.' So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?
— Jimmy O. Yang
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
— Jim Rohn
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
— Jillian Michaels
I think if you're a good person and spread happiness, good things will come to you!
— Jessie James Decker
Obviously, there will be different character traits in the dressing room, but I'm there to bring happiness and a smile.
— Jesse Lingard
When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.
— Jeremy Scott
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
I don't want to put happiness off to the future, because you never know what life will bring.
— Jennifer Connelly
I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.
— Jenifer Lewis
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.
— Jeffrey Tambor
With responsibility comes to passion, love, happiness and a purpose in life.
— Jeetendra
Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.
— Jean Seberg
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
— John Barrymore
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.
— Joel Grey
This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person's right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Joe Kennedy III
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
— Jimmy Carter
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
— Jim Crace
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.
— Jill Scott
I truly am living out what true joy and happiness means.
— Jessica White
I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.
— Jerrod Carmichael
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
— Jeremy Collier
Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.
— Jennifer Grant
The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful.
Acknowledging that there's something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, 'You know what, it's fine; I'll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,' isn't happiness. It's denial.
— Jen Sincero
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
— Jefferson Davis
Once I hit 25, people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone, as if my life was somehow over because I hadn't yet settled into their version of happiness.
— Jedediah Bila
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
— Jean-Paul Marat
The happiness of society is the end of government.
— John Adams
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.
— Joe Wright
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
— Joan Rivers
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Jim Ryun
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
— Jilly Cooper
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
— Jesse Ventura
Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.
— Jermaine Jackson
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
— Jennifer Garner
You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
— Jennifer Aniston
I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.
— Jeffrey Wright
We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness.
— Jeff Kober
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
— Jeanne Calment
