Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
‐‐ Rosalia de Castro
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
‐‐ Jane Austen
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
‐‐ Douglas Horton
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
‐‐ Sam Levenson
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
‐‐ Aeschylus
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
‐‐ Valerie Bertinelli
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
‐‐ Frederick William Faber
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse
Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bibesco
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 a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
‐‐ Polly Toynbee
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
‐‐ Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
‐‐ Indira Gandhi
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
‐‐ Jane Porter
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
‐‐ John Lubbock
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
‐‐ Robert Orben
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
‐‐ Andrea Hirata
Happiness is always a coincidence.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
‐‐ J. Donald Walters
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
‐‐ Agnes Martin
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
‐‐ Marcel Proust
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
‐‐ Euripides
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
‐‐ Alphonse Karr
Happiness is definitely a priority in our household. That the kids are happy and everybody is comfortable. Self-esteem is very important.
‐‐ Tracy Pollan
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
‐‐ Dennis Prager
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
‐‐ George A. Sheehan
Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
‐‐ Ingrid Bergman
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
‐‐ Frank McCourt
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
‐‐ George Burns
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
‐‐ Ogden Nash
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade