Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
