Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. George Bernard Shaw
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Mark Twain
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois
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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost