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Helen Keller - Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Ernest Dimnet - The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Pearl S. Buck - Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Agnes Repplier - It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Joseph Roux - When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Leo Buscaglia - What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Anatole France - Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Chuck Palahniuk - The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Don Marquis - Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Friedrich Schiller - Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Mark Twain - There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
F. H. Bradley - The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Helen Keller - True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Ernie Banks - You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Percy Ross - You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Euripides - Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Jose Marti - Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Denis Diderot - There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Ovid - Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
William Inge - The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Andre Gide - Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Frank McCourt - Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Deepak Chopra - Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
Peter Drucker - Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Andre Maurois - The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Desiderius Erasmus - It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Leslie Caron - In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Henry Drummond - Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Blaise Pascal - Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Henry Van Dyke - Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Baruch Spinoza - Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Bertolt Brecht - Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Ernest Hemingway - Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
J. D. Salinger - I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
John Barrymore - Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Thomas Merton - Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Alexandre Dumas - Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Linus Pauling - Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Robert Frost - Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Saul Bellow - Happiness can only be found if you can yourself of all other distractions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Ben Jonson - True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Bertrand Russell - To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Adam Smith - Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Henry Ward Beecher - The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Oscar Levant - Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Ashley Montagu - The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
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