I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

She had felt good for a few moments, racing across the face of the hill on her old bike, but the happy feeling had burned itself out and left behind a thin, cold rage. She...

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects–but he’ll never find God that way. God is here, right now,...

People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it’s very easy.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Smile – It’s the second best thing you can do with your lips.

What God knows about me is more important than what others think about me.

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we...

Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that...

Happiness is wanting what you have.

While I’m quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I’ve done quite a lot of. It’s also another reason why I try not to do two or three at...

If you’re not content with the small things, then you won’t be content with the big things.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God’s values, but trust, surrender? Letting go,...

I’m not trying to keep anybody happy.

I’m 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I’m perfectly...

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am...

I think people should put more emphasis on love, family, and caring for other people. We focus so much on the negative and bad in life, we need to focus more on the positive and...

everyone who terrifies you is sixy-five percent water, and everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have...

When someone’s success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you’ve found someone worth holding on to.

Who wants to live in fear when you can live in hope.

You don’t need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!

I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we...

Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

When I try to make other people happy, I become happy.

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, ‘You know, no...

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

Anyone’s life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, ‘No, you’ve got it all wrong!’ I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked...

That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.

I’m really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I’m a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I’m happy to be Jewish.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Happiness is a journey, not a journey’s end.

His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon

Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight...

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert our values, we must find the energy, courage, creativity and...

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that’s the truth. And my goal is the same – it’s to always be happy playing, it’s to enjoy the...

I’m generally quite happy until someone tells me I’m not. I don’t see how they know I’m not, but suddenly I feel less happy.

I’ve had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I’ve had, I’m happy that I’ve had them because it’s taught me to appreciate all the ups.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn’t truly happy from the bottom of my heart.

Hapi?” I asked.”Why, yes, I am happy!” Hapi beamed. “I’m always happy because I’m Hapi! Are you happy?”Zia frowned up at the giant. “Does he have to be so big?”The god laughed. Immediately he shrank...

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.