There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.
— Helena Norberg-Hodge
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
— Helen Keller
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
— Helen Gurley Brown
Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.
— Hedi Slimane
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
— Havelock Ellis
Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
— Harry Browne
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
— Harlan Coben
I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
— Halldor Laxness
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
— Guy Laliberte
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
— Gustave Flaubert
'Suit' garnered a lot of appreciation and love from the audience, and it gives me immense happiness to start my Bollywood journey with such a wonderful track. 'Hindi Medium' posed a perfect and appropriate opportunity to showcase my song and ensure that the beautiful track reaches the global audience.
— Guru Randhawa
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
— Groucho Marx
One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.
— Gretchen Rubin
Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
I think the happiness we find, we make.
— Helen Fisher
I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
— Heather Graham
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
— Harry Harrison
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
— Harold Kushner
The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.
— Haris Pasovic
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
— Hal Sparks
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
— Guy Finley
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
— Guru Nanak
If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.
— Guilherme Leal
Sure, I can afford a nice car and a nice place, but this is not what brings me happiness. Now you're on a high, and people know you and things like that, but how many people will remember your name once it all stops and the money isn't raining from the sky?
— Grigor Dimitrov
We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.
I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
— Helen McCrory
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
— Heinrich Mann
Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best beauty secret is happiness. I know that sounds sappy, but I'm just telling you it comes from the inside and spreads out. The happier and more satisfied you are living your life, the better you will look.
— Heather Dubrow
I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
— Harry Dean Stanton
The blue light emanating from our cell phones, our tablets and our laptops is playing havoc on our brain chemicals: our serotonin, our melatonin. It's screwing up our sleep patterns, our happiness, our appetites, our carbohydrate cravings.
— Harley Pasternak
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
— Hannah Arendt
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
— Hafez
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.
— Gunnar Myrdal
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.
— Grover Norquist
I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.
