“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.

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

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

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

“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.

“Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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

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

“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.

“Rules for Happiness : something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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

“…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.

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

“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear.

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

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

“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.

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.

“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.

“A man’s happiness: to do the things proper to man.

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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

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

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