We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
My life has run from misery to happiness.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.