“In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”
“Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.”
“What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.”
“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
“Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.”
“The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.”
“If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.”
“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.”
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
“The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.”
“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.”
“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.”
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.”
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.”
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.”
“The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.”
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.”
“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.”
“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.”
“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.”
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.”
“Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”