Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.