The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction that we are loved;
loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

A man is happy so long as
he chooses to be happy.
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
--Martha Washington

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

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

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms
without losing a particle of its original ray;
nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror,
it reflects itself with its redoubled brightness.
It is not perfected till it is shared.
--Jane Porter
 
 
 

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

Our happiness in this world depends on
the affections we are enabled to inspire.
--Duchesse de Praslin

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
--Richard Wagner

Man must search for what is right,
and let happiness come on its own.
--Johann Pestalozzi

It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply,
to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed.
--Storm Jameson

The summit of happiness is reached
when a person is ready to be what he is.
--Erasmus
 

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
The little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile,
a kind look, a heartfelt compliment-
countless infintesimals of pleasurable and genial feelings.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
 

There is no happiness for people
at the expense of other people.
--Anwar El-Sadat

Happiness lies in wait; it comes upon suddenly.
Like a midnight thief at a turn up in the street, or in the midst of a dream,
because a ray of light, a strain of music, a face, or a gesture
has overcome the despair of living.
--Hector Bianciotti

Happiness is what happens to us
when we try to make someone else happy.
--Unknown

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

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