No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.