What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Jim Ryun
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. – Herbert Spencer
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 is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. – Dennis Prager
The will of man is his happiness. – Friedrich Schiller
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. – Herman Hesse
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. – Jonathan Edwards
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. – George A. Smith
Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others. – Henry Drummond
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. – Billy Wilder
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right. – Quentin Crisp
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. – Dennis Prager
But happiness is no respecter of persons. – Stephen Fry
He who avoids complaint invites happiness. – Abu Bakr
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. – David O. McKay
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. – Hannah Arendt
