You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
— Candace Bushnell
The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
— Caitlin Doughty
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
— C. S. Lewis
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
— Buddha
There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
— Bryant H. McGill
I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
— Brittany Murphy
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
— Brene Brown
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
— Brenda Fassie
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
— Brad Garrett
I try to find happiness in almost anything... watching videos about new exercises, like ones you can do on a flight when you clench your buttocks.
— Boy George
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
— Bobby Davro
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
— Bob Hope
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
— Bo Bennett
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
— Blaise Pascal
As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.
— BJ the Chicago Kid
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
— Billy Graham
America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.
— Bill O'Reilly
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
— Camille Claudel
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
— Cab Calloway
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
— Brigitte Macron
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
— Brandon Boyd
I always noticed that in art school, that grief was considered more profound than happiness. But why?
— Brad Bird
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
— Booth Tarkington
A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too.
— Bobby Berk
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
— Bob Brown
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
— Billy Wilder
Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.
— Billy Crystal
Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them - not to prohibit, and not to punish - but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness.
— Bill Kristol
Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
— Caitlyn Jenner
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.
— Brie Larson
The biggest thing you can have as a football manager is happiness and energy.
— Brendan Rodgers
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
— Brad Pitt
I always judge my happiness by how much I listen to music.
Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.
— Bonnie Hunt
Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn't you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.
— Blase J. Cupich
There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
Success can create more madness than happiness.
— Billy Ocean
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
— Bill Vaughan
