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" Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. "

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" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "

Kaui Hart Hemmings

" The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing. "

Charlie Ebersol

" I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. "

" Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. "

" How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. "

William Ellery Channing

" Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. "

" In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? "

" The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. "

" What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! "

Elizabeth Bibesco

" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

Michael Douglas

" The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. "

" My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. "

" Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. "

" The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. "

Bertrand Russell

" When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. "

Martin Scorsese

" I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. "

" We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. "

Charlie Chaplin

" Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. "

" I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. "

" We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. "

Walter Savage Landor

" I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. "

" Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress. "

" For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. "

Thomas Bulfinch

" I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. "

Martin Seligman

" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "

Jordan Peterson

" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "

" Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. "

Michael A. Stackpole