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J. D. Salinger - I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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.
Andy Rooney - Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Peter Drucker - Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Ovid - Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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.
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?
Walter Savage Landor - We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Henry Drummond - Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
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.
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.
Andre Gide - Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
John Barrymore - Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Ashley Montagu - The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Alexandre Dumas - Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
William E. Gladstone - Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Linus Pauling - Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Bernard Meltzer - Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Robert Frost - Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Ogden Nash - Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Saul Bellow - Happiness can only be found if you can yourself of all other distractions.
Lord Byron - All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using 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.
Ben Jonson - True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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.
Ernest Hemingway - Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Bertrand Russell - To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Adam Smith - Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
David Lee Roth - Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
Henry Van Dyke - Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Benjamin Franklin - The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Lydia M. Child - An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher - The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Clare Boothe Luce - Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Gustave Flaubert - To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Oscar Levant - Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Hosea Ballou - Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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 Wilde - Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Charles Spurgeon - It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
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