A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. – Stendhal
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. – Brad Garrett
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. – Charles de Montesquieu
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug. – Josh Billings
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin. – Aeschylus
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for. – Henry Van Dyke
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. – William Feather
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. – Jean de la Bruyere
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? – Bo Bennett
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. – Ogden Nash
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. – William Cowper
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. – Charles Caleb Colton
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony. – James Allen
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. – John Lubbock
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. – Emile M. Cioran
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. – Paul Ryan
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. – Theodor Adorno
