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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
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
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
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
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown
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
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
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, www.robertbrault.com
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
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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