Stephen Leacock Quotes

The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness is a privilege.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed the importance of combining both the mental and material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.

Happiness is the most important thing.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.