Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. Denis Diderot
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. Marquis de Sade
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Mark Twain
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Mark Twain
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness. Aldous Huxley
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. Johnny Carson
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter S Thompson
I’d far rather be happy than right any day. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Is anyone anywhere happy? Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit. Marilyn Monroe, My Story
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. Ludwig van Beethoven
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. George Washington Burnap
I am paralysed with happiness. The Great Gatsby 2013 starring Leonardo di Caprio & Tobey McGuire & Carey Mulligan & Joel Edgerton & Isla Fisher & Jason Clarke & Elizabeth Debicki & Jack Thompson & Amitabh Bachchan et al, director Baz Luhrmann, Daisy
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D Roosevelt
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
In solitude
What happiness? who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying, what contentment find? John Milton, Paradise Lost 8:364
When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton
The person who is searching for his own happiness should pull out the dart that he has stuck in himself, the arrow-head of grieving, of desiring, of despair. Pali Tipitaka
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank
Biff: Are you content?
Happy: Hell no. Death of a Salesman 1985 ***** starring Dustin Hoffman & John Meldovich & Stephen Lang & Kate Reid & Charles Durning & Louis Zorich et al, director playwright Arthur Miller
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
I’m not sure that God particularly wants us to be happy. Shadowlands ***** 1993 starring Anthony Hopkins & Debra Winger & Edward Hardwicke & Joseph Mazzello & John Wood & Michael Denison et al, director Richard Attenborough, Jack's lecture
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification. Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Unworthy, In Praise of Darkness’
Coltrane opens door: ... Well? What do you want?
Postman: The usual things. Peace. Happiness. The Comic Strip Presents s2e2 ... Dirty Movie, Channel 4 1984
I don’t suppose that anybody’s ever perfectly happy really. Brief Encounter 1946 starring Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard & Stanley Holloway & Joyce Carey & Cyril Raymond & Everley Gregg & Marjorie Mars & Margaret Barton & Alfie Bass & Wallace Bosco & Sydney Bromley et al, director David Lean
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden
We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness. Voltaire, Candide