Happiness: A "right to happiness"... sounds to me as odd as a right to good luck.... A right to happiness doesn't, for me, make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for a father, or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic. ~C.S. Lewis Happiness: A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle Happiness: A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad Happiness: A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins. ~Matshona Dhliwayo Happiness: A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca Happiness: A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown Happiness: All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery Happiness: All persons carry with them some means of happiness. ~James Lendall Basford Happiness: As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco Happiness: Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill Happiness: Be happy, and a reason will come along. ~Robert Brault Happiness: Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette Happiness: Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~Francois VI de la Rochefoucault Happiness: But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus Happiness: Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness: Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. ~John Ruskin Happiness: Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb Happiness: Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles Happiness: Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. ~Paulo Coelho Happiness: Doing cartwheels in the green grass of happiness and skipping high towards the blue heavenly skies of joy! ~Terri Guillemets Happiness: Don't put the key to happiness in someone else's pocket. ~Author Unknown Happiness: Don't shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world. ~Terri Guillemets Happiness: Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault Happiness: Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Happiness: Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prevert Happiness: Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ~Joseph Campbell Happiness: For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown Happiness: Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown Happiness: Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw Happiness: HAPPINESS.-A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~"A Chapter of Definitions," Happiness: Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky Happiness: Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott Happiness: Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~Denis Waitley Happiness: Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ~Benjamin Franklin Happiness: Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold Happiness: Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown Happiness: Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, "Here it is!" like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, November 1851 Happiness: Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer Happiness: Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel Happiness: Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris Happiness: Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson Happiness: Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard Happiness: Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch Happiness: Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock Happiness: Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck. ~Mary Wilson Little Happiness: 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. ~Robertson Davies Happiness: Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer Happiness: Happiness is an inside job. ~William Arthur Ward Happiness: Happiness is an occasional brief glance into how simple it all can be. ~Robert Brault Happiness: Happiness is breathlessly chasing you. ~Terri Guillemets Happiness: Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. ~J.M. Reinoso Happiness: Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg Happiness: Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin Happiness: Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal Happiness: Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness: Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck Happiness: Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant Happiness: Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson Happiness: Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown Happiness: Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis Happiness: Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks Happiness: Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. ~Norman Bradburn Happiness: Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Terri Guillemets Happiness: Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi Happiness: Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson Happiness: Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz Happiness: Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost Happiness: Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore Happiness: Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets Happiness: Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer Happiness: He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher Happiness: How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. ~Gerald Jampolsky Happiness: I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger Happiness: I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at. ~Robert Brault Happiness: I don't think you can feel a sense of entitlement and still be happy. Happiness always comes from feeling that you've been blessed. ~Robert Brault Happiness: I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham Happiness: I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. ~Allen J. Lefferdink Happiness: I think Joy sleeps in strange places. We're always looking for her in shiny, happy, fun times, assuming that Joy prefers her twin brother, Pleasure, when she often hangs out with her somewhat stoic big sister, Strength. Joy is not always easy to recognize, dirt-smudged and sweating, brambles in her hair. I want to believe she sometimes wears a ski mask. ~Edmond Manning Happiness: I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. ~Diego Val Happiness: If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring. ~Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Happiness: If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton Happiness: If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery Happiness: If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau Happiness: If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell Happiness: If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru Happiness: 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. ~Josh Billings Happiness: If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe Happiness: If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault Happiness: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama Happiness: If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy Happiness: In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron Happiness: Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine Happiness: Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin Happiness: Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? ~Jim Carrey Happiness: It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow Happiness: It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. ~Robert Brault Happiness: It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel Happiness: It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed Happiness: It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Happiness: Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author unknown Happiness: Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ~Mother Teresa Happiness: Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. ~Henry Ward Beecher