Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Aristotle

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

All happiness is in the mind.

English Proverb

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

William R. Alger

If you want happiness, provide it to others.

Frank Tyger

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Daniel Boone

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao tzu

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

Frank Tyger

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Madame de Stael

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Babe Ruth

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George F. Burns

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Hannah Arendt

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

George F. Burns

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

And let it be said that love is like a river that flows deep into the heart of the soul. For in every man and woman true love should be the ultimate goal.

Gillis Triplett

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Artemus Ward (writer)

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Mary Gordon

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Alphonse Karr

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Jonathan Edwards

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?

Jeanette Winterson

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Robert Herrick

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

John W. Gardner

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

George Sand

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Charles de Montesquieu

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.

Christy Turlington

My ambition is to be happy.

Penelope Cruz

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat Savarin

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

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Chinese Proverbs

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

Daisaku Ikeda

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas S. Szasz

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Carrie P. Snow

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinger

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

Money cannot buy happiness.

Anni frid Lyngstad

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

Robert E Sherwood

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

Lyn Yutang

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Abdul Kalam

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bertolt Brecht

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Gary Larson

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Hugo Black

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

Richard L. Evans

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now.

Amy Smart

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold S. Geneen

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low.

Jonathan Edwards

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.

Solon

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.

Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Joanna Field

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all.

Ogden Nash

Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness.

Donna A. Favors

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers/ And laid entwined together in a bed of clover/ Left there to sleep/ Left there to dream of happiness.

Conor Oberst

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first.

John Tillotson

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

Rosalia De Castro

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Robertson Davies

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Behold, for deep within your eyes, no man has felt the rapture of your warmth… but I only.

Gillis Triplett

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Clare Boothe Luce

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent Mcnabb

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Spike Milligan

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Benjamin Spock

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Siddha Nagarjuna

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

J. Donald Walters

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Robert Grudin

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Walters

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dale E. Turner

When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Sam Levenson

Happiness is a journey...not a destination.

Ben Sweetland

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension.

Kathleen Tierney

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Roman Polanski

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Frederick Delius

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Theodore Reik

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

It will take time for us all to understand what has happened to us, but it is a joy to be surrounded by such happiness.

Ronaldo

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

J. Donald Walters

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

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Joyce Grenfell

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

Ethan Embry

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family.

Earl Nightingale

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Eleanora Duse

Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

Eugene O'neill

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Mother Teresa

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Dale Carnegie

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

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

Epictetus

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Dale Carnegie

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Wayne Dyer

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sir Francis Bacon

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Matthew Arnold

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William S. Burroughs

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Margaret Cho

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Jonathan Swift

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened to us.

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Helen Keller

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Maurice Maeterlinck

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Helen Keller

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

C.S. Lewis

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Robert Ingersoll

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

Anwar El sadat

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

George Santayana

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

Heinrich Mann

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Imannuel Kant

I'm so happy, ... This was all about Casey's happiness.

Kathy Valentine

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

Joan Rivers

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

James M. Barrie

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher