I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
— Donald Ray Pollock
I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
— Dominic Monaghan
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
— Divyanka Tripathi
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
— Dionne Warwick
The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
— Diana Ross
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
— Derek Bok
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
— Dennis Prager
There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness.
— Denise Morrison
I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.
— Denis O'Hare
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
— Deepak Chopra
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
— Debra Messing
There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
— Deborah Norville
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
— Debbi Fields
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
— David Sarnoff
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
— David Lynch
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
— David Letterman
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
— Don Marquis
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
— Dolley Madison
Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness.
On the professional side, I derive great happiness and energy by solving tough business and organisational problems - even taking on tough meetings with customers.
— Dinesh Paliwal
I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.
— Diane Lane
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Desiderius Erasmus
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
— Denzel Washington
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
— Denis Waitley
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
— Denis Diderot
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.
— Debra Granik
I am possessive and protective of my babies. Their happiness means more to me than anything else on this world. I love them more than I would ever have thought was possible.
— Debbie Rowe
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.
— Dean Ornish
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
— David O. McKay
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
— David Lee Roth
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
— DJ Jazzy Jeff
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
— Dita Von Teese
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
— Dinaw Mengestu
We all have the same destiny. The difference is opening ourselves up to possibilities to joy, hope, and happiness along the way. Give yourself and others a chance to take advantage of what's out there and available.
— Diane Ladd
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.
— Dennis Christopher
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
— Democritus
Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.
I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.
— Deborah Raney
I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.
— Debbie Reynolds
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
— Dayananda Saraswati
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
— David Mamet
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
