Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one'sself to do without it (George Eliot).
Happiness and virtue restupon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest areusually the best (Bulwer).
The most happy man is he who knows howto bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life (Goethe).
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truthfor its foundation (Coleridge).
Do not speak of your happiness to less fortunate than yourself (Plutarch).
It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things wedesire (Henry Van Dyke).
Happinessis not having what you want. It's wanting what you have (Unknown).
Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union ofourselves with God (Pascal).
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty,and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine (Tryon Edwards).
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when othersshare their happiness with them (Jeremy Taylor).
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin(Byron).
Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our havingonly right desires (Augustine).
The strength and the happiness of a man consists in finding our the way inwhich God is going, and going in that way, too (H. W. Beecher).
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless whenunbroken (Longfellow).
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, whileadversity is often as the rain of spring (Chinese Proverb).
Happinessis like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised (L. E.Landon).
No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines(Rochefoucauld).
We take greater pains to persuade others that we arehappy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves (Goldsmith).
This isthe true joy of life--the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as amighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to thescrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod ofailments and grievances (G. Bernard Shaw).
Wealth I ask not, hopenor love, nor a friend to know me; all I ask, the heavens above me, and the roadbelow me (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Happiness is the harvest of aquiet eye (Austin O'Malley).
The foolish man seeks happiness inthe distance; the wise grows it under his feet (James Openheim).
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it (Andy Rooney).
Most peopleare about as happy as they make up their minds to be (Abraham Lincoln).
The supremehappiness of life is the conviction that we are loved (Victor Hugo).
Some cause happinesswherever they go; others whenever they go (Oscar Wilde).
When one doorof happiness closes, another opens; but often welook so long at the closed door that we do not see the one whichhas opened for us (Helen Keller).
The grand essentialsof happiness are: something to do, something to love, and somethingto hope for (Allan K. Chalmers).
Action may notalways bring happiness; but there isno happiness without action (Benjamin Disraeli).
Happiness isnot a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
Nobody reallycares if you're miserable, so you might as well be
happy.
Cynthia Nelms
Be happy whileyou're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb
The joy thatisn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
No man is happywho does not think himself so.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness sneaksthrough a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
What is givenby the gods more desirable than a happy hour?
Catullus
Happiness makesup in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost