The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Happiness is not a reward--it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment--it is a result.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family.... public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
To fill the hour--that is happiness.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
--James Oppenheim
--Robert Green Ingersoll
--Anatole France
--Scottish Proverb
--Thomas Jefferson
--Burton Hills
--Robert Frost
--Kin Hubbard
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Oscar Levent
--Chinese Proverb