“ Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. William Samuel Johnson
“ The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life. Eleanora Duse
“ He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. Olympia Brown
“ I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards. Amy Adams
“ The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
“ I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. Chris Evans
“ Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. Alexander Payne
“ It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black
“ It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth th… Ashley Montagu
“ You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. Franz Schubert
“ Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage.… Nick Cave
“ I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress. Lillie Langtry
“ The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. Gary Larson
“ Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Charles Caleb Colton
