Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
- Elbert Hubbard
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
- John Lubbock
Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much
- Channing Pollock
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
- Henrik Ibsen
Happiness is like jam—you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
- Unknown
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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
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible [...]
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, Utilitarianism
Three grand essentials to happiness in this [...]
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
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One filled with joy preaches [...]
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 the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown
So long as we [...]
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 [...]
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
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Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott
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 [...]
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 Prévert
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. [...]