Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.
— Amy Bloom
It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
— Amity Gaige
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
— Ambrose Bierce
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.
— Amanda Harlech
Happiness is dangerous. If you're happy, you're content, and if you're content, you can become complacent.
— Alun Wyn Jones
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
— Alice Meynell
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
— Alfred Hershey
I always associate blonde with sunshine and puppies and happiness, but I don't think sexiness.
— Alexis Ren
My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.
— Alexandra Stoddard
I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.
When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.
— Alexander Skarsgard
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
— Alexander Alekhine
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
— Aldous Huxley
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
— Albert Schweitzer
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
— Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
Those who slog with the intent to bring happiness to others will always be liked.
— Amit Shah
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
As a survivor of the 20th-century Race Wars, my back remains unbent, and I move forward for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all who were created equal in God's eyes.
— Alveda King
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
— Alphonse Karr
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
— Alice Walker
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
— Alfred de Musset
It's a great happiness and deep pride to equal Andre Guy's record for goals in a season.
— Alexandre Lacazette
How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.
My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
— Alexander Pope
When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.
— Alexa Chung
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.
— Amos Oz
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
— Amber Riley
While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Playing with Neymar gives me happiness and confidence.
— Alexis Sanchez
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
— Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
— Alexander Smith
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
— Alexander Payne
Maybe because I'm mixed race, I don't see the colour when I look at Meghan; I just see a beautiful, articulate, lovely woman who has stolen the heart of Harry, and I wish them a lifetime of happiness.
— Alesha Dixon
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
— Albert Einstein
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
