1. To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. - Hermann Hesse 

2. 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 

3. There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. - Jose Marti 

4. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. - John Dryden 

5. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. - Bertolt Brecht 

6. 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 

7. A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. - Joseph Addison 

8. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. - Henry Van Dyke 

9. Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. - William E. Gladstone 

10. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. - Bil Keane 

11. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown 

12. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. - Swami Sivananda 

13. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. - Denis Diderot 

14. Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. - Friedrich Schiller 

15. Happiness is a direction, not a place. - Sydney J. Harris 

16. How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. - William Ellery Channing 

17. To describe happiness is to diminish it. - Stendhal 

18. Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. - Dennis Prager 

19. When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. - Malcolm Forbes 

20. Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. - George Sand 

21. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. - George Sand 

22. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Zhuangzi 

23. I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. - Zhuangzi 

24. Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. - Oscar Levant 

25. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

26. I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. - Martha Washington 

27. Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. - David Lee Roth 

28. Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. - Marquis de Sade 

29. I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger 

30. Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. - Rollo May 

31. You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. - Julia Roberts 

32. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. - Alexandre Dumas 

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

34. Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. - Clare Boothe Luce 

35. It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. - Thomas Moore 

36. Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S. Buck 

37. To buy happiness is to sell soul. - Douglas Horton 

38. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. - William Feather 

39. Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. - Linus Pauling 

40. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. - Ben Jonson 

41. You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. - Ernie Banks 

42. The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. - Andre Maurois 

43. Desire is individual. Happiness is common. - Julian Casablancas 

44. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. - Don Marquis 

45. We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. - Walter Savage Landor 

46. The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. - William Inge 

47. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore 

48. Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. - Frank McCourt 

49. 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 

50. Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. - Alphonse Karr 

51. Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. - Alphonse Karr 

52. Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. - Saul Bellow 

53. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. - Lupe Fiasco 

54. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. - Ashley Montagu 

55. Happiness seems made to be shared. - Pierre Corneille 

56. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. - Hosea Ballou 

57. 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 

58. Joys divided are increased. - Josiah Gilbert Holland 

59. When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. - Joseph Roux 

60. The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. - Joseph Roux 

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

62. Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman 

63. Happiness is no laughing matter. - Richard Whately 

64. Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. - Joseph Wood Krutch 

65. If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. - David Brainerd 

66. Happiness does not consist in self-love. - Joseph Butler

67. Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! - Lawrence G. Lovasik 

68. Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. - Leo Rosten 

69. The right to happiness is fundamental. - Anna Pavlova 

70. Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. - Henry Drummond 

71. Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. - Sarah McLachlan 

72. In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron 

73. People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. - Lucinda Williams 

74. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier 

75. Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! - Frederick William Faber 

76. Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. - Austin O'Malley 

77. We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. - Maurice Maeterlinck 

78. If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. - Leon Kass 

79. Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. - Arnold Bennett 

80. The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. - William Dean Howells 

81. The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. - Ernest Dimnet 

82. Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. - Andrei Platonov 

83. Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. - Robert Staughton Lynd 

84. It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. - Adrian Grenier 

85. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. - Percy Ross 

86. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. - Lydia M. Child 

87. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. - F. H. Bradley 

88. There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. - Alfred de Musset 

89. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas William Jerrold 

90. So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. - Booth Tarkington 

91. Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. - Joseph Franklin Rutherford 

92. Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 

93. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha 

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

95. I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. - Kanye West 

96. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. - Henry David Thoreau 

97. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha 

98. It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. - George Bernard Shaw 

99. Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life. - Maria Montessori 

100. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart