It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey
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
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau
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
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton