“ Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Victor Hugo
“ Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go. Allison Winn Scotch
“ Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. Marianne Williamson
“ The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. William H. Seward
“ So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. Barbara Ehrenreich
“ Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. James Van Der Zee
“ The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Jonathan Edwards
“ A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been… George Santayana
“ Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
“ To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Victor Hugo
“ Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“ The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone e… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: Making music together is the b… Hermann Hesse
“ The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with c… Ray Bradbury
“ That was an evil terror---- an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity… George Eliot
“ Some human happiness is a landlocked lake; but the Grancys’ was an open sea, stretching a buoyant and inimitable surface to the voyaging interests of life. There was room to spare on those waters for… Edith Wharton
“ Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
“ Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. Anonymous
“ The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. Barbara Pletcher
“ Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. Mary Ann Kelty