Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Gretzky
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Maria Montessori
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. George Orwell
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. Richard Bach
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox