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

“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.” — Robert J. Havighurst

“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.” — A. Edward Newton

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” — Douglas Jerrold

“If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut — our home.” — Nathaniel Cotton

“He who would be happy should stay at home.” — Greek proverb

“He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.” — Anon.

“In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.” — Donald Law

“The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick.” — Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” — Ingrid Bergman

“Laughter is the best medicine.” — Anon.

“Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: ‘Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick.’” — Anon.

“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” — Sophocles

“Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.” — Sophocles

“Better be happy than wise.” — Anon.

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” — Colette

“With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.” — Chinese proverb

“Best trust the happy moments … The days that make us happy make us wise.” — John Masefield

“I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have awaited my call, nor does any earthly blessing seem to have been wanting … I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness that have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen.” — Abd-Al-Rahman

“It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.” — Kin Hubbard

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man’s outward circumstance … a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.” — William Barclay

“Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.” — B.C. Forbes

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” — F.H. Bradley

“Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn’t bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.” — Prince

“No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.” — Clement R. Attlee

“Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.” — Aristotle

“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” — Epictetus

“Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.” — William Cowper

“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

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” — Oscar Wilde

“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.” — Chuck Noll

“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money, ‘making it’ or success.” — Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.” — B.C. Forbes

“Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.” — Robert G. Ingersoll

“It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.” — Joseph Joubert

“A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.” — Johann von Goethe

“To forget oneself is to be happy.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.” — Norman Bradburn

“The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.” — Andre Maurois

“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” — Bertrand Russell

“Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.” — Joseph Joubert

“And may I live the remainder of my life … for myself; may there be plenty of books and many years’ store of the fruits of the earth!” — Horace

“Behold, we count them happy which endure.” — Jas. 5:11

“The will of man is his happiness.” — J.C.F. von Schiller

“Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.” — Charlton Ogburn, Jr.

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” — Victor Hugo

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery, of his passions.” — Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.” — Anon.

“Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.” — Anon.

“Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.” — Anon.

“No man can be merry unless he is serious.” — G.K. Chesterton

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” — Bertrand Russell

“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.” — Frederic Amiel

“Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.” — E.R. Stettinius, Jr.

“It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.” — Zeno

“Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.” — Virgil

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.” — Robert Henri

“Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.” — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” — Charles Kingsley

“What we call happiness is what we do not know.” — Anatole France

“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — The Dalai Lama

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. — Anon.

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” — Dennis Wholey

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” — John Gunther

“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.” — G.K. Chesterton

“To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.” — W.H. Auden

“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

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller

“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” — Sigmund Freud

“We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Happiness Is a Journey Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Everyone only goes around the track once in life, and if you don’t enjoy that trip, it’s pretty pathetic.” — Gary Rogers

“The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.” — Anon.

“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late.” — Robert R. Updegraff

“Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.” — Channing Pollock

“Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.” — Joseph Farrall

“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.” — Thornton Wilder

“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.” — Arthur Rubinstein

“Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.” — E.V. Lucas

“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.” — John Stuart Mill

“Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.” — Sophocles

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.” — George Bernard Shaw

“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?” — Charles M. Schulz

“To describe happiness is to diminish it.” — Stendhal

“Don’t Postpone Happiness People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end … Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.” — Ken Keyes, Jr.

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” — Anon.

“Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Tom Walsh

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?” — Jane Austen

“Enjoy yourself. These are the ‘good old days’ you’re going to miss in the years ahead.” — Anon.

“Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?” — Sophocles

“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.” — Tom Robbins

“Sadness is a state of sin.” — Andre Gide

“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.” — Paul Bourge

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.” — Dr. Edward De Bono

“By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.” — Madame Swetchine

“Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy.” — H.L. Mencken

“The worst sin — perhaps the only sin — passion can commit is to be joyless.” — Dorothy Sayers

“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.” — Simone Weil

“Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhap- piness.” — Joseph Addison

“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.” — Don Herold

“All mankind’s unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.” — Blaise Pascal

“None think the great unhappy but the great.” — Edward Young

“The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is … lack of faith.” — Carl Jung

“Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.” — Don Marquis

“Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.” — Bertrand Russell

“Cheerfulness I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.” — Beverly Sills

“To know the world one must construct it.”

— Cesare Pavese

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

-- Henry Ford