“If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.”
“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.”
“Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
“Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.”
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”
“Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.”
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.”
“Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.”
“It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.”
“If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!”
“A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.”
“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
“Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.”
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
“Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.”
“The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.”
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.”
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness”
“Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.”
“When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”