"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
"I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family."
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
"The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism."
"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."
"When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose."
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
"There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness."
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth."
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it."
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"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."
"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
"Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them."
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."
"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."
"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."
