Pastoral Resources

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.