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“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy”
Guillame Apollinaire

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
Abraham Lincoln

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
Victor Hugo

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart
Confuscious

Happiness is not having what you want. It’s wanting what you have
Unknown

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
Oscar Wilde

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 opened for us
Helen Keller

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy
Robert Anthony

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
Allan K Chalmers

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is not a destination. It’s a method of life
Burton Hills

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy
Cynthia Nelms

Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead
Scottish Proverb

The joy that isn’t shared dies young
Anne Sexton

No man is happy who does not think himself so
Marcus Aurelius

Happiness sneaks through a door you didn’t know you left open
John Barrymore

What is given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?
Catullus

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length
Robert Frost

Often the greatest enemy of present happiness is past happiness too well remembered
Oscar Hammling

A joy that’s shared is a joy made double
John Ray

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope
Kalidasa

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want
Margaret Young

It may be true that happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting
Maria Luisa-Bombal

Fate often puts all the material of happiness into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them
Don Marquis

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Jason Mason Brown

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response
Mildred Barthel

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap
William Bennett

What is the worth of anything, but for the happiness ‘twill bring
Richard Owen Cambridge

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing
If you want happiness for a month – get married
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else
Chinese Proverb

The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days
The Bible: Ecclesiasticus XXX22

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens
Douglas Jerrold

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

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be
La Rochefoucauld

Experience praises the most happy the one who make the most people happy
Karl Marx

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get
Bernard Meltzer

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will
Dan Millman

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them
John Stuart Mill

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have
Doris Mortman

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy
Gretta Brooker Palmer

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

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good
Bertrand Russell

No joy can equal the joy of serving others
Sai Baba

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve
Albert Schweizer

I wish you all the joy that you can wish
William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression
Dodie Smith

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with
Mark Twain

If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are
Monesquieu

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself
Publilius Syrus

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change
Bertrand Russell

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

The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances
Martha Washington

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government
Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves
Aristotle

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same
Anne Frank

The purpose of our lives is to be happy
The 14th Dalai Lama

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand
Henry James

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable
Goethe

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them
Albert Camus

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route
Charles Caleb Colton

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy
Thomas Fuller

It is better to be happy for a moment, and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
Don Marquis

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it
Jacques Prevert

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom
Marcel Proust

Happiness walks on busy feet
Kittie Turmell

Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory
Albert Schweitzer

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile
Bertrand Russell

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which gives happiness
Thomas Jefferson

Happy the man, and happy he alone;
He who can call today his own;
He who secure within can say;
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today
Horace

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation
William H Sheldon

The more refined one is, the more unhappy
Anton Chekhov

Happiness is intelligent people is the rarest thing I know
Ernest Hemingway

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

To fill the hour – that is happiness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

happ’y a. (~ier, ~est, ~ily, ~iness) - lucky, fortunate; content; apt, felicitous
The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary

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