Its enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. – Adrian Grenier
To be able to throw ones self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a womans smile – that is happiness. – Hermann Hesse
I dont know the true meaning of happiness. – Jonathan Davis
Happiness isnt happiness unless theres a violin-playing goat. – Julia Roberts
I certainly wasnt happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you cant earn, and cant keep, and often dont even recognize at the time I mean joy. – Ursula K. Le Guin
Happiness is perfume, you cant pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. – James Van Der Zee
I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell
Weve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because thats easier. Its much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. – Emma Thompson
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a mans hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. – Don Marquis
Ive run into certain geniuses of individualism – they are very few and far between – who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. – David Duchovny
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange anothers happiness. – Graham Greene
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that theyve known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is. – Christina Ricci
It is now possible to quantify peoples levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. – Polly Toynbee
Its horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesnt bring them the happiness they think it will. – Miuccia Prada
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you dont set any condition. – Arthur Rubinstein
True religion… is giving and finding ones happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. – William J. H. Boetcker
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when youre not looking for it. – Hugh Laurie
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. Theres immense happiness that can come from working towards that. – Nick Cave
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. Theres going to be stress in life, but its your choice whether you let it affect you or not. – Valerie Bertinelli
Youve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the worlds most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness. – Percy Ross
