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Happiness

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." ~Robert Anthony

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

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." ~Lady Blessington

"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys." ~Christian Nestell Bovee

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." ~Berke Breathed

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." ~H. Jackson Browne

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner." ~Colette

"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone." ~Sigmund Freud

"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness"~Bernard de Fontenelle

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom." ~Benjamin Franklin

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

"Happiness is a direction, not a place." ~Sydney J. Harris

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

"Happiness is a form of courage." ~Holbrook Jackson

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination." ~Immanuel Kant

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." ~Frederick Keonig

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." ~Dalai Lama

"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important." ~Janet Lane

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." ~Cynthia Nelms

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." ~James Openheim

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." ~Norm Papernick

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." ~Logan Pearsall Smith

"Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own." ~Johann Pestalozzi

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." ~Jacques Prévert

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are." ~Palmer Sondreal

"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." ~St. Augustine

"If you want to be happy, be." ~Leo Tolstoy

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." ~Mark Twain

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour." ~Unknown

"Pleasure is spread through the earth. In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find." ~William Wordsworth

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." ~Edith Wharton

"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 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


"Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?" ~Yevgeny Zamyatin