Pastoral Resources

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.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.