Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert G. Ingersoll
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Helen Keller
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levent
It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. Don Marquis
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Bertrand Russell
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell
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. Akhenaton
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. George Santayana
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. Scottish Proverb
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. William Shakespeare
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. St. Augustine
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake