Happiness: Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~Richard Wagner Happiness: Joy is such stuff as the hinges of Heaven's doors are made of. ~Robert Haven Schauffler Happiness: Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. ~John Suckling Happiness: Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown Happiness: Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud Happiness: Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ~Carl Sandburg Happiness: Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust Happiness: Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. ~Robert Brault Happiness: Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness: Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi Happiness: Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~Charles Gow Happiness: Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~Mignon McLaughlin Happiness: Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert Happiness: Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln Happiness: Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd Happiness: Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony Happiness: My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder Happiness: My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare Happiness: No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. ~Robert Brault Happiness: Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms Happiness: Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault Happiness: Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane Happiness: Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young Happiness: On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge Happiness: One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness. ~Robert Brault Happiness: One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa Happiness: One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb Happiness: One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill Happiness: People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov Happiness: People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Brown Happiness: Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson Happiness: Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather Happiness: Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Happiness: Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson Happiness: Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou Happiness: Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever. ~James Lendall Basford Happiness: Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Brault Happiness: She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas Happiness: She wielded her desires like a magic pen and scrawled the great wonderword Happiness across her life in letters of flame and gold and diamonds and roses! ~Anita Vivanti Chartres Happiness: So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington Happiness: So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. ~Robert Brault Happiness: Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown Happiness: Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to. ~Robert Brault Happiness: The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan Happiness: The best climate is found in the state of Contentment. ~James Lendall Basford Happiness: The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown Happiness: The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown Happiness: The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain Happiness: The Declaration of Independence only holds as a truth of the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Author unknown Happiness: The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus Happiness: The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger Happiness: The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim Happiness: The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy. ~Robert Brault Happiness: The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan Happiness: The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet Happiness: The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux Happiness: The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw Happiness: The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer Happiness: The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. ~Robert Brault Happiness: The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett Happiness: The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~Robert Brault Happiness: The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson Happiness: There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali Happiness: There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith Happiness: There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark Happiness: There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington Happiness: There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault Happiness: There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. ~Thich Nhat Hanh Happiness: This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charles M. Schulz Happiness: Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick Happiness: Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison Happiness: To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus Happiness: To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. ~Robert Brault Happiness: To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton Happiness: To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell Happiness: Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee Happiness: Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold Happiness: Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill Happiness: We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley Happiness: We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor Happiness: We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin Happiness: We can't control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. ~David C. Hill Happiness: We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ~Thomas Merton, 1955 Happiness: We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw Happiness: We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere Happiness: We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness. ~Robert Brault Happiness: We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig Happiness: What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette Happiness: What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins Happiness: What is joy-a sunbeam between two clouds. ~Dorothee de Luzy Happiness: Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. ~Robert Brault Happiness: When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles Happiness: When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli Happiness: When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Terri Guillemets Happiness: Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness: With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. ~Eknath Easwaran Happiness: With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy. ~Attributed to Henry S. Haskins Happiness: You can only have bliss if you don't chase it. ~Henepola Gunaratana Happiness: You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness? ~Robert Brault Happiness: You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown Happiness: You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman Happiness: You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus