happiness

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

(...) La felicidad es tener un corazón capaz de amar. Es saber que has sido importante para alguien... Que de algún modo, en algún momento, has marcado la diferencia. Y la muerte no es nada en comparación con esos momentos.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another's willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship. (...) a thriving economy of love.' - character Mike Lambeth

Each to their own reality

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.

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Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.

Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.

I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution.