One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare
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 without preaching. ~Mother Teresa
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 can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington
Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
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
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898
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
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
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux
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
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
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