Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here. James Hillman
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Gustave Flaubert
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. Maxwell Maltz
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. Laurence Sterne
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. Irving Babbitt
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. Maurice Maeterlinck
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. Red Skelton
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. Douglas Horton
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. Jane Porter
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. Franz Kafka
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. Michael J. Fox
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. Robert Orben
Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness. Shahrukh Khan
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. Denzel Washington
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton