“ Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs… William Bennett
“ Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson
“ To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars to be satisfied with your possessions but not contented with yourself until you have m… Henry Van Dyke
“ For me happiness came from prayer to a kindly God faith in a kindly God love for my fellow man and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living but… Edward Young
“ The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is. Horace Walpole
“ This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless. Theodore De Banville
“ Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest. George Matthew Allen
“ The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson
“ No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy Franz Kafka
“ Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable. Ntozake Shange
“ Happiness comes more from loving than being loved and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love and to be hurt often and to love again-this is the brave and hap… J. E. Buckrose
“ I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism. George Santayana
“ A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. Joseph Addison
“ I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. William J. Lock
“ In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Bertrand Russell
