One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. – Maria Montessori
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. – George Orwell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. – Bertrand Russell
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. – Richard Bach
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. – Michael J. Fox
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result. – Robert Green Ingersoll
When ambition ends, happiness begins. – Thomas Merton
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. – Epictetus
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? – Chuck Palahniuk
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. – James Allen
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. – William S. Burroughs
Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object. – Hermann Hesse
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. – Ambrose Bierce
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 is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. – J. Donald Walters
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. – Quentin Crisp
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. – Thomas Carlyle
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Zhuangzi
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
