People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.
— Tituss Burgess
Happiness is one thing, and I've had it my whole life - that's family.
— Timothy F. Cahill
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
— Tim Jackson
Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness.
— Tiger Shroff
I don't allow Hollywood to define my joy, my happiness, and my peace because you'll be screwed. You have to be very careful.
— Tia Mowry
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
— Thornton Wilder
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
— Thomas Traherne
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
— Thomas S. Monson
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
— Thomas Moore
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
— Thomas Huxley
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
— Thomas Bulfinch
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I've broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; 'Dad I love you,' that is what means the most to me.
— Tito Ortiz
Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.
— Tim Ryan
I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
— Tim Ferriss
The best feeling in the world for me is when my parents say they are proud of me; I just want to give them all the happiness that they deserve.
I have a lot of gay friends, and some have not come out, and... it just hurts me that there are some people who can't feel like they can be themselves because society is not accepting to them. I literally see their happiness deprived.
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
— Thor Heyerdahl
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
— Thomas Merton
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
— Thomas Carlyle
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
— Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
— Tina Turner
At its essence, 'Groundhog Day' is an existential journey of an unhappy, judgmental, slightly narcissistic, misogynistic, dissatisfied, aspirational, entitled, privileged male who has to learn to be the opposite of all those things to find happiness - to learn that learning is important and that you don't get to control everything.
— Tim Minchin
When you care about people's happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity. And if you give them a choice, they'll say, 'I want an iPhone,' or 'I want a Mac.' We think we can win a lot of corporate decisions at that level.
— Tim Cook
People write me every day. It feels like this cycle that keeps giving, because as far along as I get in my happiness and success, hearing other people's stories is a constant reminder of where I came from, where people are, and how much help everybody still needs.
— Tig Notaro
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
— Thucydides
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
— Thomas Szasz
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
— Thomas Paine
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
— Thomas Jane
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
— Thomas Hood
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
