Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
I equate physical activity with happiness not just from the perspective of producing endorphins but also from the perspective of really moving through emotions and getting stagnant energy to move through our body.
Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life.
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
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.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.
I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!
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.
Iβve come to the conclusion that weβre all responsible for our own happiness and the happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. Iβm a big believer in positive thinking.
I'm promoting positivity. I'm promoting happiness and loving yourself and having fun. But it's not a joke.
