For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. Use this quote
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. Use this quote
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. Use this quote
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Use this quote
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. Use this quote
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Use this quote
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. Use this quote
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. Use this quote
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. Use this quote
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Use this quote
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. Use this quote
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. Use this quote
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. Use this quote
Happiness is always a coincidence. Use this quote
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. Use this quote
You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true. Use this quote
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. Use this quote
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does. Use this quote
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . Use this quote
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Use this quote