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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”
Blaise Pascal
“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
Frederick Douglass
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Joseph Campbell
“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”
John William Gardner
“Love is trembling happiness.”
Khalil Gibran
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Joseph Addison
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
Jacques Yves Cousteau
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
Democritus
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
John Dewey
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.”
Malcolm Forbes
“Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!”
Freddie Mercury
“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
John Lubbock
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
Andre Maurois
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
Thomas Merton
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
Jim Rohn
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Carl Sandburg
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
Charles Spurgeon
“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”
Julia Roberts
“My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.”
Evangeline Lilly
