Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Thoreau
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
C.P. Snow
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Many person have a wrong idea if what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simple, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disseal