But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
— Victoria Jackson
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
— Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
— Vernon Howard
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
— Vanilla Ice
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
— Valerie Bertinelli
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.
— Tyga
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
— Tryon Edwards
Happiness is definitely a priority in our household. That the kids are happy and everybody is comfortable. Self-esteem is very important.
— Tracy Pollan
I enjoy eating so much. I eat for happiness, fuel, and nourishment.
— Torrey DeVitto
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
— Tom Wilson
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.
— Tom Stoppard
You throw sadness, you throw depression, you throw horror at Batman, he's like, 'Yeah, yawn, I've done that.' You throw happiness at him? That's something that riles him; that's something that he's not used to.
— Tom King
One of the neatest things I saw with the team at Ohio State - and we preach about it all the time as coaches - is that the team genuinely played for the happiness, success and rings on the finger for the guy next to them.
— Tom Herman
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.
— Tom Ford
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— Todd Akin
Tennis court, the results, yes, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment and knowing that all the work I put in is working. It's a great feeling. But happiness is something way bigger than tennis.
— Victoria Azarenka
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you've made it money-wise, you've made a life. Which is a lie. You don't get happiness by money.
— Vicky Krieps
We are an industry, and we are all in this together and can't survive without each other. I feel it is high time we realise that. If we go against each other, or if we get happiness from other people's fall, then there is no way we will move ahead.
— Varun Dhawan
I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
— Vanessa Paradis
I am ambitious and passionate and that in itself is drive. My work gives me happiness.
— Vaani Kapoor
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.
— Tyler Perry
The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.
— Travis Kalanick
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
— Tracy Kidder
My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.
— Tony Jaa
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so.
— Tom Holland
Drew is a wonderful woman. I love her very much. I wish our marriage could have worked out. I wish her much happiness.
— Tom Green
When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
— Tobey Maguire
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
I feel there's a constant sense of happiness and gratefulness in me.
— Vicky Kaushal
Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?
I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.
— Valerie Harper
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
— V. S. Pritchett
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
— Tyler Cowen
In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.
— Tsai Ing-wen
Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.
— Travis Bradberry
I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.
— Tracee Ellis Ross
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
— Tony Hawk
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
— Tom Waits
When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
— Tom Rath
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.
If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women.
— Tom Cotton
