In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon Hill
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Sarah McLachlan
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois
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