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. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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 is an inside job. – William Arthur Ward
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
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. – J.D. Salinger
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. – Werner Erhard
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Gorky
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. – Carl Sandburg
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. – John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land. – Terri Guillemets
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison
