Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Use this quote
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. Use this quote
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. Use this quote
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. Use this quote
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Use this quote
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Use this quote
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Use this quote
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Use this quote
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. Use this quote
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Use this quote
Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective. Use this quote
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Use this quote
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Use this quote
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. Use this quote
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. Use this quote
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. Use this quote
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Use this quote
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. Use this quote
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Use this quote
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will. Use this quote