1. A baby is born with a need to be loved---and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark
2. A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle
3. A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Fontenelle
4. A happy life consists in tranquility of mind. ~Cicero
5. A happy life must be o great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. ~Bertrand Russell
6. A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
7. A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
8. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
9. All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
10. 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
11. Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
12. Be grateful for what you have, not regretful for what you haven’t. ~Unknown
13. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
14. Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
15. Better to be happy than wise. ~John Heywood
16. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus
17. Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~William James
19. Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles
20. Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day, Without suspecting our abode until we drive away. ~Emily Dickinson
21. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
22. Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight... ~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven
23. For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown
24. Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Unknown
25. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ~Unknown
26. Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
27. Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. ~Unknown
28. 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
29. Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
30. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
31. Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Unknown
32. Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
33. Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer
34. Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
35. Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
36. Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson
37. Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard
38. Happiness is a habit—cultivate it. ~Elbert Hubbard
39. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch
40. Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. ~John Lubbock
41. Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny
42. Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. ~Henrik Ibsen
43. Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies
44. Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg
45. 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
46. Happiness is like jam---you can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself. ~Unknown
47. Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
48. Happiness is making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. ~Unknown
49. Happiness is neither having nor being, but becoming. ~Unknown
50. Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
51. Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. ~Burton Hills
52. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
53. Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment — it is a result. ~Robert Ingersoll
54. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
55. Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Les Runbeck
56. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
57. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
58. Happiness is the delicate balance of what one is and what one has. ~F. H. Denison
59. Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Unknown
60. Happiness is the inner joy that can be sought or caught, but never taught or bought. ~Unknown
61. Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks
62. Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so. ~Robert G. Ingersoll
63. Happiness is the result of being too busy to be miserable. ~Unknown
64. Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. ~Norman Bradburn
65. Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston
66. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
67. Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz
68. Happiness isn’t always doing what you want to do; it’s doing what you don’t want to do, and being glad you did it. ~Jessie evens Smith
69. Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ~Oscar Levent
70. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost
71. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore
72. Happiness resides not in possessions or in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. ~Democritus
73. Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
74. Happy is the housewife who sees the rainbows, not the dishes, in the soapsuds. ~Unknown
75. He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise. ~Fuller
76. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
77. He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. ~W. R. Alger
78. He who laughs, lasts. ~Proverbs
79. I ain’t what I could be, I ain’t what I should be, but I ain’t what I used to be. ~Unknown
80. I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger
81. I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works. ~Louise Hay
82. If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
83. If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
84. 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
85. If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru
86. If you create something, you must be something. ~Johann Goethe
87. If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings
88. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe
89. 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, www.robertbrault.com
90. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
91. 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
92. In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up. ~R. H. Grenville
93. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine
94. Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
95. It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow
96. It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
97. It is the chief point of happiness: that a man is willing to be what he is. ~Desiderius Erasmus
98. It’s good to be just plain happy. It’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how and still be happy—be happy in the being and the knowing---well, that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. ~Henry Miller
99. It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. ~Unknown
100. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
101. It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
102. Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown
103. Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Unknown
104. 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
105. Laughter is the tranquilizer with no side effects. ~Arnold Glasgow
106. Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. ~The Buddha
107. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
108. Life doesn’t require that we be the best---only that we try our best. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
109. Love is trembling happiness. ~Kahlil Gibran
110. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. ~Chinese Proverb
111. 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
112. Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
113. Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~Charles Gow
114. Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
115. Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
116. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
117. Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd
118. Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
119. Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything. ~Unknown
120. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
121. My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare
122. No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. ~Helen Keller
123. No one has ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. ~Unknown
124. Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
125. Nothing can bring you peace, but yourself. Nothing can bring yo peace but the triumph of a principle. ~Emerson
126. Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Guilaume Apollinaire
127. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
128. 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
129. 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
130. One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa
131. One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
132. People don’t notice whether it’s summer or winter when they’re happy. ~Anton Chekhov
133. 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
134. Pleasure is spread through the earth, In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~William Wordsworth, 1806
135. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson
136. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather
137. Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
138. Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson
139. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou
140. Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
141. So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington
142. Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
143. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan
144. The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Unknown
145. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain
146. The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today. ~Charles W. Eliot
147. The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus
148. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger
149. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet. ~James Oppenheim
150. The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Allan K. Chalmers
151. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
152. The happiness of man consists in life, and life is in labor. ~Tolstoy
153. 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
154. The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux
155. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
156. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow
157. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
158. The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett
159. The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself. ~Unknown
160. The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson
161. There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali
162. 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, Afterthoughts, 1931
163. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo
164. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
165. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius
166. This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown
167. Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
168. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha
169. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
170. To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
171. 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
172. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
173. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. ~Buddha
174. To live happily is an inward power of the soul. ~Aristotle
175. Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
176. True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~Helen Keller
177. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. ~Kahlil Gibran
178. Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
179. Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
180. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
181. We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor
182. We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
183. We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere
184. 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
185. “Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
186. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
187. What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins
188. When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
189. When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is. ~Cheri Huber
190. When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights, and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Grey Livingston
191. With all things, it is better to hope than to despair. ~Unknown
192. Worry doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness. ~Unknown
193. Yet we cannot reach happiness by consciously searching for it.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives,
whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly. ~Unknown
194. You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Unknown
195. You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman
196. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus