Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Ambrose Bierce on happiness
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger on happiness
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. Blaise Pascal on happiness
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti on happiness
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell on happiness
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar Gracian on happiness
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant on happiness
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes on happiness
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas on happiness
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. Friedrich Schiller on happiness
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand on happiness
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash on happiness
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. Douglas William Jerrold on happiness
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg on happiness
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Maurice Chevalier on happiness
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky on happiness
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten on happiness
Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris on happiness
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide on happiness
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson on happiness