Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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.