I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

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.

For me however that beloved glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Money is not necessarily although it helps a lot for happiness it's not necessarily the best way to be happy to be rich you know.

Some days are just bad days that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day that's just the way it is!

I find that the older I get the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

The older I get the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people rather than the form of its government.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy even in bad circumstances.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness because who I am today I am completely content to be.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness I think only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11 unfortunately it's gone.

Man must search for what is right and let happiness come on its own.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.

Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The women I know who have children and have careers they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are what you love.

You need characters who want things. They want love they want recognition they want happiness.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.