Bertolt Brecht - Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Blaise Pascal - Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Henry Van Dyke - Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
J. D. Salinger - I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Baruch Spinoza - Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Henry Ward Beecher - The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Thomas Merton - Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Oscar Levant - Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Ashley Montagu - The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
John Barrymore - Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Alexandre Dumas - Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Robert Frost - Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Bernard Meltzer - Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Alice Walker - Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Lord Byron - All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Bertrand Russell - To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
David Lee Roth - Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Linus Pauling - Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Ben Jonson - True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ogden Nash - Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Adam Smith - Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
William E. Gladstone - Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Saul Bellow - Happiness can only be found if you can yourself of all other distractions.
Mahatma Gandhi - Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Sophocles - Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Epictetus - There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Clare Boothe Luce - Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Lydia M. Child - An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Gustave Flaubert - To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Benjamin Franklin - The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Hosea Ballou - Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Denis Waitley - Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg - I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
Ben Bernanke - High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
Fiona Apple - I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Angela Bassett - When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
Parker Stevenson - I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to
Paul Ryan - College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
Simon Newcomb - In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
Ed O'Neill - In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls
Laurie Anderson - At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Ruby Wax - College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Carol P. Christ - I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
David Eddings - I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Peter Gallagher - I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Leigh Steinberg - It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.