Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. – David Sarnoff
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. – Lord Byron
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. – Jane Austen
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. – Taylor Swift
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. – Andre Maurois
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. – Robert Baden-Powell
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. – Harold Kushner
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. – Sophocles
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Aeschylus
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. – Horace
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. – Miguel de Unamuno
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. – Malcolm Muggeridge
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. – Marcel Proust
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. – Red Skelton
