Happiness

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness
Gratitude
Thought
Wonder
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness
Religion
Mystery
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton Chekhov
Happiness
Life
Idleness
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
Happiness
Peace
Religion
Government
People
Concern
Measure
Order
Public
Safety
Support
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Charlie Chaplin
Happiness
Help
Misery
Want
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
Government
Happiness
Men
Work
Opportunity
Office
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing
Happiness
Success
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers
Happiness
End
Holiness
Man
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick Cave
Happiness
Marriage
Sense
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather
Happiness
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova
Happiness
God
Censure
Mercy
Ruin
Vote
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas
Happiness
Desire
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter
Happiness
Life
Survival
Rights
Human rights
Liberty
Pursuit
Spiritual
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson
Happiness
Hurt
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron
Happiness
Order
Pain
Unhappiness