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