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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin on happiness

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand on happiness

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon on happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle on happiness

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie on happiness

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce on happiness

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson on happiness

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller on happiness

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 on happiness

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway on happiness

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus on happiness

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw on happiness

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain on happiness

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois on happiness

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt on happiness

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson on happiness

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce on happiness

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli on happiness

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller on happiness

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer on happiness