The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Inge
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Even if we can't love our enemies, lest at least love ourselves. Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health, and our looks.
Dale Carnegie
No matter what happens to you, your mind works by reverting to your predetermined level of happiness once you've adapted to the new event.
Thibaut Meurisse
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
Kahlil Gibran
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others.
Daisaku Ikeda
The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The man whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest.
The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.
Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king
For beyond the satisfaction of some real and natural necessities, all that the possession of wealth can achieve has a very small influence upon our happiness, in the proper sense of the word; indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the preservation of property entails a great many unavoidable anxieties.
If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
Oliver Goldsmith
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
