Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
— Barry Sanders
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
— Bar Refaeli
We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
— Baha'u'llah
I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.
— Ayobami Adebayo
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
— Austin O'Malley
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
— Audrey Hepburn
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
— Ashley Montagu
I've enjoyed my life. There has been great tragedy but also moments of great happiness. I've taken both in my stride, and if I were to replay my life, I would do it all over again.
— Asha Bhosle
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
— Artie Lange
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
— Arthur Rimbaud
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
— Arthur C. Brooks
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
— Arnold Bennett
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
— Ariel Gore
Salman has his own personal equation. I have my own personal equation. We are sometimes not even a part of each other's celebration or happiness. But we are definitely there when somebody is down.
— Arbaaz Khan
Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The main purpose of our storyline is to spread happiness. Our cinema has an emotional connect.
— Anupam Kher
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.
— Banks
I think you have to be a father to understand those feelings… that happiness of being a father.
— Badshah
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
— Ayn Rand
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
— Ausonius
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.
— Ashton Kutcher
I've heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
— Ashley McBryde
I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.
— ASAP Ferg
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
— Arthur Hiller
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
— Arthur Ashe
Money, to me, is just a mode of transportation that I use to get around but not enough to get me where I really want to be: to a world of bliss and happiness.
— Arnel Pineda
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
— Anwar Sadat
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
— Anton Chekhov
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
— Barbara De Angelis
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
— Baltasar Gracian
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
— Azar Nafisi
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
— August Strindberg
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!
— Ashley Graham
I have accumulated no money but I accumulate a lot of happiness. If you get rich, you have an apartment with an extra bedroom - and then you die.
— Arunachalam Muruganantham
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
— Arthur Rubinstein
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
— Arthur Helps
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
— Aron Ralston
I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
— Arizona Muse
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'
There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.
— Anushka Sharma
