Baltasar Gracian - Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
Albert Schweitzer - Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
George Burns - Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
Sam Levenson - Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Benjamin Spock - Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Walter Savage Landor - We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Ernest Dimnet - The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Malcolm Forbes - When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Helen Keller - Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Bette Davis - A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Agnes Repplier - It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Pearl S. Buck - Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Bertrand Russell - A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Albert Camus - But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Friedrich Schiller - Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Richard Bach - If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
F. H. Bradley - The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
William Ellery Channing - How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Leo Rosten - Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Helen Keller - True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Ernie Banks - You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Percy Ross - You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Booth Tarkington - So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Euripides - Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Dale Carnegie - Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Joseph Roux - When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Mark Twain - There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Don Marquis - Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Leo Buscaglia - What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Sarah McLachlan - Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Chuck Palahniuk - The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Anatole France - Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Andrei Platonov - Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Jose Marti - Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Peter Drucker - Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Frank McCourt - Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Denis Diderot - There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Deepak Chopra - Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
Andre Maurois - The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
William Inge - The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Desiderius Erasmus - It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Ovid - Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Leslie Caron - In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Andre Gide - Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Henry Drummond - Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Ernest Hemingway - Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.