It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
- Adrian Grenier
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
- Lucinda Williams
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
- Walter Savage Landor
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
- Alfred de Musset
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
- Andrei Platonov
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
- Richard Bach
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To forget oneself is to be happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Joseph Addison
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
- Bette Davis
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
- Thomas Moore
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
- Robert Staughton Lynd
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- Baltasar Gracian
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- Don Marquis
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Thomas Merton
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
- Zhuangzi
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
- Malcolm Forbes
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- Ernest Dimnet
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
- George Burns
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
- Swami Sivananda
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- Ayn Rand
Love is trembling happiness.
- Khalil Gibran
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
- Deepak Chopra
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
- David Brainerd
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- Baruch Spinoza
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
- Richard Bach
You can be happy where you are.
- Joel Osteen
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
- Jose Marti
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
- Alphonse Karr
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
- William Dean Howells
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
- F. H. Bradley
Happiness seems made to be shared.
- Pierre Corneille
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
- Percy Ross
Happiness is no laughing matter.
- Richard Whately
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
- Immanuel Kant
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
- Frederick William Faber
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.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
- Hermann Hesse
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- C. S. Lewis
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
- Leon Kass
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
- Albert Camus
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
- Ambrose Bierce
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
- Douglas Horton
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen
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. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- Euripides
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- Joseph Roux
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
- Julian Casablancas
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
- John Stuart Mill
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
- George Sand
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
- Arnold Bennett
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
- Booth Tarkington
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
- Joseph Butler
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Aldous Huxley
Joys divided are increased.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
- Buddha
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
- Dita Von Teese
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
- Kevyn Aucoin
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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- C. S. Lewis
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
- William Morris
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
- Thucydides
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
- Jim Rohn
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
- George Foreman
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
- Democritus
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.
- Alana Stewart
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
- Phillips Brooks
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
- Albert Camus
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
- Aeschylus
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
- Joel Osteen
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
- J. Donald Walters
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
- Marie Kondo
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
- Denzel Washington
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
- James E. Faust