One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.