Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. John Dryden
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Alphonse Karr
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. Maurice Maeterlinck
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. Leon Kass
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. Charlotte Perkins Gilman