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"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way." »John Stuart Mill
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"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." »Og Mandino
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"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up." »Charles Langbridge Morgan
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"happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." »George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
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"happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." »George Santayana
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"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves." »William Ellery Channing
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"happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." »Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
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"happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities." »Aldous Huxley
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"Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart. - Sri Amit Ray" »Amit Ray
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"The noble-minded dedicate themselves to the promotion of the happiness of others?even of those who injure them. True happiness consists in making happy." »Bharavi
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." »C. P. Snow
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"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." »Samuel Johnson
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." »Samuel Johnson
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"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love." »Saint Adela Rogers Johns
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"Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine." »Newell Dwight Hillis
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"happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' happiness is when he stops." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves." »George Eliot
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"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure." »Charlotte Bronte
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"happiness is different from pleasure. happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing." »George Sheehan
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"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
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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness." »Lao Tzu
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness." »F. H. Bradley
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"I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead." »Andrew Schneider
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""The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment." »Med Jones
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"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents." »John W. Gardner
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"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation." »Anais Nin
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"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." »George Santayana
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"Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short." »Jeff Melvoin
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"In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared." »Francis Quarles
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"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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