The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
- Jacques Prevert
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
- E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
- Cynthia Nelms
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
- Norm Papernick
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
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Frank McKinney
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
- Hazelmarie Elliott
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
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
- Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
- Janet Lane
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Lady Blessington
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
- Bernard de Fontenelle
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
- Robert Brault
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
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
- Salvador Dali
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, we could have a paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
- Doug Larson
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.
- H.W. Byles
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
- Kitty O'Neill Collins
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
- William Shakespeare
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
- John Stuart Mill
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- Joseph Roux
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
- Andrew Delbanco
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- Iris Murdoch
Happiness is... Usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
- Author Unknown
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- Ernest Dimnet
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
- Eugene O'Neill
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
- Don Herold
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
- Georges Duhamel
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 is.
- Maxim Gorky
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
- John Stuart Mill
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- Samuel Johnson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Freya Stark
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
- Leslie Caron
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
- William R. Inge
I hate being happy. It pisses me off. Because I know if I try to grab it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes. And I hate just looking. I always try to grab.
- D.H. Mondfleur
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
- Guilaume Apollinaire
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- Sophocles
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
- Charles Caleb Colton
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
