How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

Paul Sweeney

A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.

Tom Wilson

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Aesop

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

Albert Einstein

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Alice Walker

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

Andy Rooney

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Anonymous

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.

Christie Brinkley

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.

Dr. Robert Anthony

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.

Gordon B. Hinckley

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise under his feet.

James Oppenheim

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Nicolas Chamfort

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

Happiness is acceptance.

Unknown

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

Clayton Christensen

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

Mridha

In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun.

Santosh Kalwar

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

Unknown

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama XIV

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have. 

Woody Allen

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Frank Tyger

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Alan Cohen

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

Elizabeth Scott

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy