“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.” ——Joseph Joubert
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” ——Colette
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” ——Anton Chekhov
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” ——Douglas Jerrold
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.” ——Don Herold
“It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.” ——Georges Duhamel
“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.” ——J. D. Salinger
“The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was – or wasn’t.” ——D. H. Mondfleur
“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” ——Werner Erhard
“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
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.” ——John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ——Joseph Addison
“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
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ——Robert Brault
“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
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ——Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ——Guillaume Apollinaire
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” ——Hosea Ballou
“Some pursue happiness, others create it.” ——Author Unknown
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” ——Epictetus
“Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.” ——Author Unknown
“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.” ——George Bernard Shaw
“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.” ——Phillips Brooks
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” ——Albert Camus
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.” ——Thomas Jefferson
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” ——Charles Kingsley
“It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.” ——Jean Ingelow
“Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.” ——Norman Bradburn
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.” ——Josh Billings
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” ——William Feather
“Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.” ——François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ——Author Unknown
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” ——Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” ——Mildred Barthel
“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
“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
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.” ——C. P. Snow
“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.” ——Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary