Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. – Paulo Coelho
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? – Leslie Caron
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. – William R. Inge
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. – Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Joy is not in things; it is in us. – Richard Wagner
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis
If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French b
Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher
No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
[T]he beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart… life still called to her with many insistent voices. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [the comfort of knowing the world goes on
When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. – Sophocles
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton
