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.
Euripides - Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Booth Tarkington - So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Henry Ward Beecher - The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
John Barrymore - Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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