You have to fight for your happiness.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

You have to create your own happiness.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Happiness isn’t about grand gestures or achievements. It’s about the small moments that make your heart full.

They say money can’t buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

I think the key to happiness is finding joy in the little things.

It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

The happiness of my people is a testament to the values and principles I hold dear.

The happiness of my people is a reflection of the positive changes and progress that have been made.

Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to how you choose to look at things.

I think happiness is love.

There is no happiness in life, there is only a mirage on the horizon, so cherish that.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Through fasting…I have found perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Happiness is not something you find; it’s something you create.

Life’s too short to be anything but happy.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Greatness! Extraordinariness! Conquest of the world and immortality of the name! What good was all the happiness of people eternally unknown compared with this goal?

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own – this is happiness.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness

God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you

We are happy that we could resonate with so many people.

The end of government is the happiness of the people

If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth

I think the most important thing in life is happiness. I respect people’s opinions, but I’m in search of happiness.

I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences… be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

A good Government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of Government, which is the happiness of the People; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

Happiness is the gift of friends; it is born out of human relationships

Always remember that the labor that is congenial is the one always that secret of happiness that all want around the world.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning

Many deceive themselves, imagining they’ll find happiness in change.

These limitations and restraints were laws. To be obedient to them was to escape hurt and make for happiness.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Know your own happiness.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a “one size fits all” standard for happiness.

My mother saw me being attacked. She cried when I left engineering for this cause. She understood my fight, encouraged me. I remember all those who were with me in this struggle, including two colleagues who were killed. Whenever I free children from slavery and take them back to their mothers, the tears of happiness in their eyes are like blessings of God. When I see the faces of liberated children, I find their smile of freedom divine and it gives me divine strength. I never feel I’m liberating them, rather it feels like they’re giving me freedom.

I believe in life. I believe in liberty. I believe in the pursuit of happiness.

‘Bloo’ is a compilation of a few songs I’ve written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I’ve had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It’s cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

At the end of the day, I’d love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That’s what would make me most happy.

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon

The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We should not approve of an unequal and brutal society because surveys show that people are happy. But who has the right to tell those oppressed women or starving landless peasants that they shouldn’t be happy, if they think they are? Does anyone have the right to make those people feel miserable by telling them the ‘truth’? There are no easy answers to these questions, but they definitely tell us that we cannot rely on ‘subjective’ happiness surveys to decide how well people are doing.

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them

Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher

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.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call “happiness”, if we be but able to entertain them.

The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness…. Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile…. Not a single one but has at some time wept.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

I don’t like to feel so crazy about someone. I don’t like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness—that happiness is a choice you make.

Our happiness, success, and safety can be measured by our genuine capacity to tune in to the loving vibration of the universe.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Whenever we place our happiness and peace in anything outside of ourselves, we’ll inevitably feel unfulfilled and stuck.

I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you’re seeking is already within you.

I am worthy of feeling good.

When we chase happiness externally, we’re simply looking for God in all the wrong places.

I’m working my happiness like a full time job.

I learned that real happiness doesn’t come from getting but from giving.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness – that happiness is a choice you make

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

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

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun

Happiness does not come from consumption of things

Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.

Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: ‘At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.’

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harrass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you – alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

It is happiness if you laugh together, If you cry together, it is friendship; but if you are silent together, this is real love.

If you have some mind; When you cannot find the conditions you want for happiness, you should know how to be happy under the conditions you find.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

A drug more harmful than the so-called heroic drugs has entered the national culture: easy money. The idea flourished that the law is the greatest obstacle to happiness, that learning to read and write is useless, that one lives better and safer as a criminal than as good people. In short: the state of social perversion typical of every larvae war.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Are you happy are you satisfied?

How long can you stand the heat

I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort

In the midst of sadness, remember that happiness is still possible.

I’m just tryna find peace and happiness, you can have all the shine.

You can’t forbid children to do things that are available to them at every turn. God told Eve, ‘Don’t give the apple to Adam,’ and look what happened. It’s in our nature to want the things we see.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

In life, the idea is to be happy.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it’s okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

This is happiness. To run before the world is awake in the most beautiful environment here in Kenya’.

Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.

True progress happens slowly. We must be patient.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.