I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people.

We're moved by our fans. We feel their sadness and happiness. We're deeply connected.

I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.

I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.