Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
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.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.