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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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,

“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.”

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“…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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle

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