“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” ——Author Unknown
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ——Robert Heinlein
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” ——Frederick Keonig
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” ——Benjamin Franklin
“If you want to be happy, be.” ——Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.” ——Palmer Sondreal
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” ——Robert Anthony
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ——Mark Twain
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” ——Cynthia Nelms
“Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.” ——Norm Papernick
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” ——Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” ——James Openheim
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” ——John Barrymore
“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 Browne
“It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.” ——Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard
“Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.” ——Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” ——Margaret Young
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” ——St. Augustine
“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” ——Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
“Happiness is a form of courage.” ——Holbrook Jackson
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” ——Berke Breathed
“Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” ——Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” ——Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” ——Sydney J. Harris
“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.” ——Janet Lane
“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.” ——Author Unknown
“Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.” ——Author Unknown
“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” ——Lady Blessington
“The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.” ——Author Unknown
“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” ——Bernard de Fontenelle
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” ——Immanuel Kant
“Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.” ——Johann Pestalozzi
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” ——Henry Ward Beecher
“If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.” ——Robert Brault
“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” ——Walter Savage Landor
“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” ——George Bernard Shaw
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” ——Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.” ——Bertrand Russell
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” ——Doug Larson
“Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.” ——H. W. Byles
“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.” ——William Shakespeare
“We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.” ——Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.” ——Andrew Delbanco
“Happiness is the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it.” ——Author Unknown
“Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.” ——Author Unknown
“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.” ——Booth Tarkington
“Jumping for joy is good exercise.” ——Author Unknown
“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” ——Gretta Brooker Palmer
“Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.” ——Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny
“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.” ——Charles L. Morgan
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” ——Iris Murdoch
“Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.” ——Thomas Szasz
“When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.” ——Niccolo Machiavelli
“You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.” ——Author Unknown
“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” ——Ernest Dimnet
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” ——Chinese Proverb
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” ——George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898
“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.” ——Seneca
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” ——Mother Teresa