I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
— David Hyde Pierce
I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
— David Duchovny
Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.
— David A. Bednar
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
— Dave Grohl
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
— Dante Alighieri
One of the magical things about kindness is that it's what we nerds call a 'happiness aggregator.' People confuse kindness with being nice. And they're very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.
— Daniel Lubetzky
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
— Daniel Kahneman
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
— Daniel Gilbert
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
— Daniel Boone
As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
— Dan Stevens
We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
— Dan Buettner
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
— Dale Carnegie
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
— Dalai Lama
I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
— Dakota Fanning
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.
— David Henry Hwang
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
— David Brainerd
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.
I remember my father taking us to meeting with lawyers, interviews with immigration officers, doing everything he could to get us that treasured Green Card - and the happiness, the sense of relief, when he finally did - we knew that we were welcome now, and we would be welcome tomorrow.
— Dara Khosrowshahi
I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do.
— Danny DeVito
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
— Daniel Keys Moran
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
— Daniel Johns
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
I like happiness, and when people try to destroy that, it winds me up.
— Dani Alves
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
— Dan Savage
I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
— Damien Rice
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
— Dale Archer
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
— Daisaku Ikeda
I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'
— David Harbour
Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
— Daphne du Maurier
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
— Daniel Tammet
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.
— Daniel Goldstein
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
— Daniel Dennett
Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
