Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.
Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don’t have courage, I dream.
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
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