Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
— George Santayana
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
— George Sand
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
— George Porter
To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made.
— George Muller
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
— George Foreman
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
— George Eliot
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
— George Bernard Shaw
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
— George A. Smith
I've discovered the joys of happiness.
— Genesis P-Orridge
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
— Garth Brooks
Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'
— Gabrielle Bernstein
My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The will of man is his happiness.
— Friedrich Schiller
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Freya Stark
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
— Frederick Douglass
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
— George Orwell
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
— George Mason
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
— George Burns
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
— George A. Sheehan
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
— Gail Porter
I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body.
Happiness isn't for dabblers.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
There's happiness in having less.
— Fumio Sasaki
Money cannot buy happiness.
— Frida Lyngstad
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
— Frederick William Faber
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
— Frederick Delius
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.
— George Harrison
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
— Geoff Mulgan
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
— Gary Larson
Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.
— Gad Saad
When your primary function is to be happy, then whatever comes to you is irrelevant. Happiness is your true manifestation.
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
— Gabrielle Anwar
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
