We used to have championships in the streets with my friends, and whoever scored a goal was the happiest boy in the world. Now, every time that I score, I go back to being a child: the happiness of scoring a goal is unexplainable.
— Antoine Griezmann
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
— Anthony Trollope
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
— Anthony Hopkins
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
— Anna Pavlova
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
— Ann Voskamp
My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.
— Angus Deaton
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.
— Andy Stanley
Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
— Andrew Zimmern
You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.
— Andrew Sullivan
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.
— Andrew Solomon
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
— Andrea Hirata
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
— Andre Maurois
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
— Andre Gide
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
— Anatole France
Happiness can't start with external stuff, whether that's money or success or your body.
— Amy Schumer
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
— Amy Bloom
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
— Annie Besant
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
— Anne Lamott
The right to happiness is fundamental.
A good education is another name for happiness.
— Ann Plato
Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.
— Angela Lansbury
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
— Andy Rooney
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
— Andrew Weil
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
— Andrei Platonov
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
— Andrea Corr
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
— Andie MacDowell
Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.
— Ana Ivanovic
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
— Amy Lowell
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
— Anthony Storr
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
You find happiness where you find it.
— Anna Paquin
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
— Anita Baker
Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.
— Aneurin Barnard
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
— Andy Grammer
Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.
— Andrew W.K.
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, my team-mate scores. It's called an assist, and it's my way of spreading happiness.
— Andrea Pirlo
When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.
— Andrea Bocelli
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
— Anderson Paak
Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?
— Amy Chua
