A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard ShawI've got nothing to do today but smile.
Paul SimonHappiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Herman HesseHappiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma GandhiYou 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 CamusHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George BurnsLove is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. HeinleinWhat's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Henny YoungmanIf you want to be happy, be.
Leo TolstoySuccess is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing you will be successful.
Albert SchweitzerMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George OrwellWhen one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen KellerI would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte BronteRemember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus AureliusHappiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
ZhuangziIn order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.
Theodor ReikHappiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai LamaBe happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Deepak ChopraOf all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand RussellAll happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo TolstoyA disciplined mind brings happiness.
BuddhaOh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Herman HesseThe most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
Audrey HepburnFor every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLove is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
Nicholas SparksHappiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
AeschylusBy all means marry. If you get a good wife you'll become happy, if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.
SocratesHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane AustenYou must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Jane AustenThe best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar WildeIt isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale CarnegieDifferent men seek happiness in different ways and by different means.
AristotleVery little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself in your way of thinking
Marcus AureliusHappiness is an inside job.
William Arthur WardAs long as I have rice to eat and pure water to drink I can find joy within.
ConfuciusI, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day today and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho MarxThe walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim RohnA child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Paulo CoelhoThe word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungMoney is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
Bob MarleyHappiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present.
Jim RohnBelieve in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent PealeA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane AustenSpread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother TeresaI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyI wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Jane AustenIt is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath TagoreThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark TwainThe greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor HugoHappiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George WashingtonHappiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.
AristotleWhat you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
John GreenSome cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
Oscar WildeLet no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother TeresaHappiness depends upon ourselves.
AristotleHe who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyNothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
Virginia WoolfWith freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar WildeSanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark TwainIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert EinsteinBe happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Mother TeresaGrief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainKnow your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.
Jane AustenNo one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen KellerTo be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell HolmesLove is trembling happiness.
Kahlil GibranGood men abandon lusting after things, they take no pleasure in sensual speech, when touched by happiness or sorrow, the wise show no elation or dejection.
BuddhaBut oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William ShakespeareIt is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin FranklinI heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
Audrey HepburnThere are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil GibranA man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman, than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene DietrichGive a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard ShawI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerHappiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. RooseveltFortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar GracianTo be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.
Gustave FlaubertWe live in an ascending scale, when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis StevensonThe disciple should associate with a wise friend who detects and censures his faults and who points out virtues as a guide tells of buried treasures. There is happiness not woe to him who associates with such an intelligent friend.
BuddhaHow happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopeIt isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho MarxI don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
Drew BarrymoreThe human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark TwainIf you're respectful by habit constantly honoring the worthy four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
BuddhaGet on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God.
Sai BabaGod will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy GrahamAnd I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear.
William BlakeHappiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid BergmanThey must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
ConfuciusAll that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
BuddhaDifferent men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
AristotleHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantNothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre GideYour success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen KellerThe wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself "I shall today be uppermost".
ConfuciusIt takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss, volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
George SantayanaAllow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel JohnsonGod cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. LewisHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
AristotleThe happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonIf you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund BurkeA table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin, what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert EinsteinA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre MauroisAs a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran LebowitzSometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy then I'm everything I want to be.
Angelina JolieThere are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin FranklinI'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
Kurt CobainImagination disposes of everything, it creates beauty, justice and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise PascalMarriage is the most natural state of man and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin FranklinHealth and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
Joseph AddisonHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert SchweitzerMoney has never made man happy nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has, the more one wants.
Benjamin FranklinOf course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Paulo CoelhoThe happy life is thought to be one of excellence, now an excellent life requires exertion and does not consist in amusement.
AristotleHappiness is activity.
AristotleJust because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.
Bob MarleyI must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Jane AustenThe best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.
Paulo CoelhoThe moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.
Paulo CoelhoPeople who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another.
Mother TeresaIt is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother TeresaIt is not true that suffering ennobles the character, happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset MaughamThis planet has -- or rather had -- a problem which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Douglas AdamsPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
StendhalI would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Herman HesseWhat would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre GideIt is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.
BuddhaIf with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
BuddhaThere will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere and we are all apt to expect too much, but then if one scheme of happiness fails human nature turns to another, if the first calculation is wrong we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere...
Jane AustenA man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz KafkaOthers may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Muhammad AliMany persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen KellerTo enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
BuddhaAlimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. MenckenGod isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous HuxleyBut what is happiness, except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert CamusI don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerAnd because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.
William BlakeTruth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Kahlil GibranHappiness belongs to the self-sufficient
AristotleThe happy Union of these States is a wonder, their Constitution a miracle, their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James MadisonAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. LewisThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan SwiftHappy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander PopeEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl JungHappy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Augustus HareTo find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness
John DeweyBeauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund BurkeIn order that people may be happy in their work these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John RuskinNothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife, he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel JohnsonI don't see myself as beautiful because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny as if that's supposed to make me happy.
Angelina JolieHappiness consists in activity. It is running steam not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TolkienI believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and... I believe in miracles.
Audrey HepburnAs men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.
Blaise PascalEarly morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
William FeatherAll human history attests, That happiness for man - the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner.
Lord ByronThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne FrankHow unbearable at times are people who are happy people for whom everything works out.
Anton ChekhovAlways keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl NightingaleContempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand RussellThe happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert HubbardA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
StendhalSuch happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John DeweyThe talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.
Woody AllenPuritanism. The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.
H. L. MenckenYeah. Sheryl and I are very happy. To me when you have a relationship you're happy and in love children are a natural part of the equation
Lance ArmstrongI cry Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!
William BlakeTo be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor HugoKnow then this truth enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeLife an age to the miserable and a moment to the happy.
Francis BaconSuspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness, he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph AddisonEvery diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew JacksonAny happiness that you can give to others will result in happiness for yourself in the end. Man must realize that he cannot get anything without sharing it with humanity around him. So you must believe that happiness of the people around you will lead to your own happiness in due course.
Sai BabaPlenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William FeatherNo one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George OrwellWe believe as our founders did that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty, and individual liberty requires limited government.
Paul RyanI feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision.
William BlakePart of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent PealeIt's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness, poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin HubbardIf happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
AristotleMen are born with a helpless lamenting cry, they should die with a smile of happy joy.
Sai BabaThe will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich SchillerThere is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry FordWe are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel JohnsonIt is an illusion that youth is happy an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset MaughamMy message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.
Alanis MorissetteHappiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well clothed well housed well and educated up to a good standard and employed under comfortable conditions with no injury to health or security.
Sai BabaIn the confusion we stay with each other happy to be together speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt WhitmanLife does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Anton ChekhovTo be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel JohnsonHappiness is the only sanction of life, where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George SantayanaA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James MadisonAll who joy would win - Must share it - happiness was born a twin
Lord ByronWealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry FordAlways leave something to wish for, otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar GracianHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler YeatsA happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people and many cats prefer people to other cats.
Mason CooleyHappiness is a sort of action.
AristotleI can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.
Hillary ClintonWe are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
William Butler YeatsHe who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
ChanakyaReal happiness lies within you.
Sai BabaIndeed man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineThe purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai LamaHappiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
EuripidesTo be happy make other people happy.
W. Clement StoneHappiness is mental harmony, unhappiness is mental inharmony.
James AllenThe happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
ChanakyaMan's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan PoeCharacter is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George SantayanaPeople take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Happiness is a thing to be practiced like the violin.
John LubbockBy taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showing that she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel JohnsonThe palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin DisraeliThe smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David ThoreauIf you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent PealeThe founders of a new colony whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as the site of a prison.
Nathaniel HawthorneOften I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl SandburgI think it's better that way. I'm happy with the way my career went and ended and I'm not coming back.
Lance ArmstrongI have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus AureliusRemember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz