The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J. D. Salinger
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. – Jose Marti
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. – Baltasar Gracian
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. – Ogden Nash
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. – Maurice Chevalier
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. – Leo Rosten
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. – Andre Gide
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. – Ben Jonson
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. – Anatole France
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. – Joseph Wood Krutch
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu
To describe happiness is to diminish it. – Stendhal
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. – Sophocles
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
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. – David Brainerd
Desire is individual. Happiness is common. – Julian Casablancas
