Pastoral Resources

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Happiness is an inside job.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.