Pastoral Resources

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.