Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

I have a good life.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Money can't buy happiness.

The American Dream is about freedom.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

I just want to have a nice, happy life.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

I'm happy in my life.

The American dream is about freedom.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

America stands for the land of opportunity.