Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
The day of individual happiness has passed.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.