Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
— Euripides
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
— Ethan Suplee
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
— Estelle
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway
In L.A., you see a lot of women who get into these trends for inner happiness while putting most of their energy into looking younger. It's Botox on Tuesday, laser on Wednesday, some weird juice cleanse having nothing to do with health and everything to do with losing weight the next day.
— Erin Foster
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
— Eric Hoffer
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
— Epictetus
My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.
— Emmylou Harris
When I was young and less wise, I thought that being a feminist meant being independent. It meant not sacrificing your needs for anyone else's and not relying on anyone else for even a smidgen of your happiness or well being.
— Emily V. Gordon
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
— Emily Oster
Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
— Emile Zola
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
— Elsa Schiaparelli
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.
— Ellen Key
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
— Ellen G. White
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
I get way too much happiness from good food.
— Elizabeth Olsen
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
— Eugenio Montale
I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
— Ethan Canin
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
— Ernie Banks
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
— Eric Ripert
Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
— Eric Greitens
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.
— Emma Thompson
Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
— Emily Procter
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.
Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
— Elvis Costello
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
— Ellen Pompeo
The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.
A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.
— Ellen DeGeneres
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
— Elizabeth McCracken
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
— Ethel Percy Andrus
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
— Esther Duflo
The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.
— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
— Ernest Dimnet
Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
— Eric Idle
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
— Epicurus
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Meeting with people is awesome in every sense of the word. It can inspire you with glee. It can inspire you with happiness. It can inspire you with sadness and melancholy, but also hope.
— Emma Gonzalez
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.
When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
— Emily Blunt
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
— Emil Cioran
Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they're the very definition of love.
— Elizabeth Smart
