The gratification of desire is not happiness.
— Daisaku Ikeda
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
— Dada Vaswani
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
— D. H. Lawrence
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
— Curtis Mayfield
I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'
— Conor Oberst
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
— Confucius
I guess there's always a search for happiness.
— Colin Morgan
Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.
— Clementa C. Pinckney
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
— Clare Boothe Luce
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
— Claire Forlani
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
— Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness is only real when shared.
— Christopher McCandless
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
— Christina Milian
Any time you can have an impact on anybody's life in a positive direction, to bring happiness to the community or a certain group of people, you don't take that lightly as a team, as a player.
— Christian Yelich
Joy and happiness don't strengthen relationships - difficulty does.
— Chris Sullivan
I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.
— Chris March
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
— D. B. Weiss
I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.
— Criss Angel
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.
— Condoleezza Rice
Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
— Colin Hay
In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
— Clara Schumann
Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness. I did it with great sadness, but you have to put the country first.
— Chuka Umunna
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
— Chuck Norris
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
— Christopher Hampton
I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.
— Christie Brinkley
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
When it comes to relationship compromise, it's a fine balance between doing something for your own happiness, and finding happiness in being of service to another person, in whatever way that ends up being.
I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.
— Chris Evans
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
— Dag Hammarskjold
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.
— Cyrus Broacha
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
— Coretta Scott King
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.
— Connie Nielsen
You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
— Common
I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.
— Colin Donnell
Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
— Clara Barton
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
— Christopher Miller
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
— Christina Ricci
Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.
— Chris Webber
Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good.
— Chris Stapleton
