Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. – Johnny Carson
It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J.D. Salinger
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – François VI de la Rochefoucault
Don’t shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world. – Terri Guillemets
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. – Author Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. – Charles Gow
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming — a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. – Robert S. Lynd
So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. – Abd-El-Raham
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. – Terri Guillemets
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. – Martha Washington
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy? – Albert Einstein
