Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
– A Course In Miracles
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
The secret of happiness is something to do.
– John Burroughs
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
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
– Jane Austen
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
– Ben Franklin
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
– F. H. Bradley
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
– Benjamin Franklin
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
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
– Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
– George Sheehan
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
– Author Unknown
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
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.
– George W. Douglas
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
– Dale Carnegie
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin.
– Unknown
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
– Albert Schweitzer
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
– Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
– Henri Frdric Amiel
...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
