"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love."
"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time."
"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."
"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."
"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
"The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace."
"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."
"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."
"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
"Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy."
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
"I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music."
"Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world."
"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness."
"Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God."