Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

It's a business when the NBA cuts you, trades you or waives you. But you're a villain, as a player, when you take your future and your happiness in your own hands and it's unfortunate.

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

I have to look for my happiness, and that is being out on the pitch, playing well, and scoring goals. That makes me happy.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.