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 on happiness
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire on happiness
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. Richard Bach on happiness
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox on happiness
Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke on happiness
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll on happiness
When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton on happiness
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. Epictetus on happiness
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. William Blake on happiness
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Chuck Palahniuk on happiness
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. James Allen on happiness
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson on happiness
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal on happiness
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs on happiness
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Samuel Johnson on happiness
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object. Hermann Hesse on happiness
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant on happiness
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambrose Bierce on happiness
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne on happiness
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. J. Donald Walters on happiness