That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
-Willa Cather

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.
-Bertha Damon

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
-Robert F. Kennedy

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

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
-John W. Gardner

Money really cannot buy happiness.
-Anonymous

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing nor that, but simply growth.
-W.B. Yeats

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
-Countess of Blessington

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
-Mildred Barthel        

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
-Dave Gardner

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi           

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same
-Francesca Reigler        

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition
-Arthur Rubinstein      

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only neccesary to be rich.
-Alan Alda      

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
-Anonymous           

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
-Buddha

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
-Francoise de Motteville

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

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
-Thomas Paine

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
-Aristotle      

Happiness depends, as Nature shows,Less on exterior things than most suppose.
-William Cowper      

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
-Bette Davis      

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
-Lillian Gish

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

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
-Roy M. Goodman      

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
-George Herbert      

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile -- that is happiness.
-Herman Hesse      

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
-Burton Hills      

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
-William Inge      

The poor man is happy; he expects no change for the worse.
-Demetrius

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-Benjamin Disraeli     

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
-George Eliot      

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
-Epictetus      

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
-Anatole France      

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard      

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
-Scottish Proverb      

Happiness is good health and bad memory.
-Ingrid Bergman