Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
Jean Ingelow

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. Salinger

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

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

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jacques Pr�vert

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony

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

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
Colette

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

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
John Barrymore

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
St. Augustine

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a form of courage.
Holbrook Jackson

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de La Bruyere

Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.
Emily Logan Decens

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

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life.
Grey Livingston

Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Janet Lane

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
Author Unknown

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.
Author Unknown

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Lady Blessington

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.
Author Unknown

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V.S. Pritchett

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
Doug Larson

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.
H.W. Byles

What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise.
Kitty O’Neill Collins

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.
Author Unknown

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington

Jumping for joy is good exercise.
Author Unknown

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer

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

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Eugene O’Neill

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
Seneca

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
Anton Chekhov

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

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
Taisen Deshimaru

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Werner Erhard

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou

Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Author Unknown

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
Author Unknown