"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

"It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it"

"Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful."

"Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful."

"Happiness dies when not shared"

"Happiness is a continuous creative activity."

"The constant happiness is curiosity."

"We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."

"Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."

"Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it."

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it."

"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

"The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has placed us."

"It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything."

"Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine."

"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually"

"Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile"

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."