Everything in large doses is gonna kill you. Even happiness.
— Sandra Bullock
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
— Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
— Samuel Adams
Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
— Sam Altman
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— Saint Augustine
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
— Said Nursi
The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
— Sai Baba
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.
— Ruzwana Bashir
I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.
— Russell Simmons
People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.
— Rush Limbaugh
Among this country's enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell ourselves that money cannot buy happiness, but what is incontrovertible is that money buys stuff, and if stuff makes you happy, well, complete the syllogism.
— Rumaan Alam
Pray for me, I need happiness in life. It was a very tough decision to leave my husband and son and come away to Mumbai and start all over again.
— Roopa Ganguly
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
— Rod Parsley
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
— Samuel Richardson
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
— Sam Levenson
I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
— Salman Rushdie
Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
— Saina Nehwal
I find happiness in the tiniest things.
— Sai Pallavi
Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
— Sabrina Carpenter
In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!
— Russell M. Nelson
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
— Rollo May
I have to look for my happiness, and that is being out on the pitch, playing well, and scoring goals. That makes me happy.
— Robinho
I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.
— Sandeep Singh
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
— Samuel Chase
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
— Sam Harris
There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
— Sakshi Tanwar
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
I love dancing, and I dance for my own happiness.
My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— S.E. Cupp
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
— Ruth Reichl
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.
— Rupert Friend
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
— Rosalia de Castro
Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness - of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. - fit into such a computational picture?
— Roger Penrose
