“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.”
“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
“Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.”
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
“There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!”
“Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.”
“Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.”
“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.”
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”
“We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”
“Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.”
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
“Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.”
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
“One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''”
“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.”
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
“You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.”