Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. – Groucho Marx
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family. – George Porter
Each week, I post a video about some ‘Pigeon of Discontent’ raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the ‘Bluebird of Happiness,’ we’re also plagued by those small but pesky ‘Pigeons of Discontent.’ – Gretchen Rubin
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter. – Henry B. Eyring
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. – Harold Kushner
The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. – H. P. Lovecraft
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. – James Allen
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness. – Oscar Wilde Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing – to be happy. We wouldn’t be in a monetary system if we didn’t have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that’s my main responsibility. – Jason Mraz
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. – Henry David Thoreau
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. – Hugo Black
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. – John Burroughs
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe. – John C. Calhoun
One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham
I’ve been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness. – Heather Graham
Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best beauty secret is happiness. I know that sounds sappy, but I’m just telling you it comes from the inside and spreads out. The happier and more satisfied you are living your life, the better you will look. – Heather Dubrow