Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Happiness is an inside job.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.