Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
Colley Cibber

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe

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

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in a society.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berke Breathed

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is nothing more than a good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

Happiness is a way station between to little and too much.
Channing Pollock

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

Happiness is not in the mere posession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosvelt