“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” ~ Walt Whitman

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” ~ Henry Ford

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.” ~ Brother David Steindl-Rast

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” ~

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.” ~ Honore De Balzac

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” ~ George Orwell

“Rules for Happiness : something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~ Immanuel Kant

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ William James

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” ~ Robert Frost

“…all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit

“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.” ~ Franz

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” ~ Richard Bach

“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” ~ Democritus

“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

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it

“Happiness … leads none of us by the same route.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama

“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ~ J.M. Barrie

“A man’s happiness: to do the things proper to man.” ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” ~ Alfred Tennyson

“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.” ~ Lord Byron

“But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer – happiness.” ~ Aeschylus