We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.

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

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

we all want a happy and secure home life. Dr. Johnson, the eighteenth-century conversationalist, once remarked that the aim and goal of all human endeavor is "to be happy at home." But in the Western world, and many other parts as well, homes and families are tearing themselves apart.

All human beings are alike in seeking happiness. Where they differ is in the objects from which they seek it and the strength they have to reach the objects they desire.

Ask yourself: What makes your good day a good day? What are the things that tend to make you happy and satisfied? What gives your life a sense of meaning and purpose? What are the things you faithfully pursue, and what are you hoping to experience once you get them? If I watched the video of your last year, what treasure would I conclude you're after?

Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. [...] We, people hearts, seldom say much about these treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later we simple let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own path laid out for them — the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. p.125