I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying to achieve it, when you're not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.
— Bill Bailey
If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
— Bette Midler
I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of unworthiness and shame, which really goes with mental illness.
— Beth Hart
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
— Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
— Bertha von Suttner
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
— Bernard Cornwell
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
— Benjamin Spock
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
— Benjamin Franklin
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
— Ben Nicholson
Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.
— Ben Fountain
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
— Beau Willimon
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
— Baruch Spinoza
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
— Bil Keane
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
— Bharati Mukherjee
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
— Bette Davis
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
— Beth Ditto
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
— Bernard Meltzer
'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.
— Benny Cassette
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.
— Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
— Ben Jonson
When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.
— Ben Domenech
When our players come from somewhere else, they sometimes show happiness when the game is 0-0 or 1-1, but we were brought up in an environment where we have to win. We are not satisfied with 0-0 or 1-1. This is the mentality of Bayern Munich.
— Bastian Schweinsteiger
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
— Barry Took
My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!
— Bianca Balti
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
— Beyonce Knowles
I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
— Bethenny Frankel
Animals are everything to me. I always say, 'Who rescued who?' with my horse Belle. She is my greatest teacher. She teaches me to be grounded, present, and in the moment, which I feel is key to happiness. My panic attacks become nonexistent when spending time with my animals, especially out in nature.
— Beth Behrs
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
— Bertolt Brecht
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.
— Bennett Miller
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
— Benjamin Hoff
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
— Ben Hecht
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
— Ben Carson
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
