One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days...

That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.”

“Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!”

“Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.”

“Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another’s unhappiness.”

“He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.”