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

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

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

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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

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

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Happiness is a direction not a place.

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

Happiness does not lie in happiness but in the achievement of it.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Don't walk behind me I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.

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

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

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness exists on earth and it is won through prudent exercise of reason knowledge of the harmony of the universe and constant practice of generosity.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.