Templates
William Inge - The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Helen Keller - Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Bette Davis - A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Chuck Palahniuk - The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
William Ellery Channing - How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Ernie Banks - You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
John Dryden - Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Baruch Spinoza - All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Desiderius Erasmus - It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Benjamin Spock - Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Joseph Roux - When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Sarah McLachlan - Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Albert Schweitzer - Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
George Burns - Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
Malcolm Forbes - When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Ernest Dimnet - The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Bertrand Russell - A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Don Marquis - Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Richard Bach - If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Percy Ross - You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Robert Green Ingersoll - Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Leslie Caron - In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Andre Gide - Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Leo Buscaglia - What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Alphonse Karr - Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
F. H. Bradley - The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Deepak Chopra - Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Bertrand Russell - Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Walter Savage Landor - We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Pearl S. Buck - Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Andrei Platonov - Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Friedrich Schiller - Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Leo Rosten - Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Euripides - Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Booth Tarkington - So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Henry Drummond - Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Dale Carnegie - Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Anatole France - Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Helen Keller - True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
C. S. Lewis - You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Sam Levenson - Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Agnes Repplier - It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Albert Camus - But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Mark Twain - There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Ambrose Bierce - Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
Baltasar Gracian - Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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