James M. Barrie:

　　Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

　　James Oppenheim:

　　The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

　　John Barrymore:

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

　　John Milton:

　　The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

　　Kalidasa:

　　Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!

　　Look to this Day!

　　For it is Life, the very Life of Life.

　　In its brief course lie all the

　　Verities and Realities of your Existence.

　　The Bliss of Growth,

　　The Glory of Action,

　　The Splendor of Beauty;

　　For Yesterday is but a Dream,

　　And To-morrow is only a Vision;

　　But To-day well lived makes

　　Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,

　　And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.

　　Look well therefore to this Day!

　　Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

　　Kin Hubbard:

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

　　Leo Buscaglia:

　　What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

　　Ludwig Wittgenstein:

　　I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

　　M. Scott Peck:

　　The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

　　Marcel Proust:

　　Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

　　Margaret Bonnano:

　　It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

　　Mark Twain:

　　Happiness is a Swedish sunset —— it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

　　Mark Twain:

　　The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

　　Martha Washington:

　　The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

　　Mohandas K. Gandhi:

　　Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

　　Nathaniel Hawthorne:

　　Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

　　Norman MacEwan:

　　Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

　　Oliver Wendell Holmes:

　　The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

　　Pearl S. Buck:

　　Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

　　Peyton Conway March:

　　There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life —— happiness, freedom, and peace of mind —— are always attained by giving them to someone else.

　　Ralph Waldo Emerson:

　　To fill the hour —— that is happiness.

　　Ramona L. Anderson:

　　People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

　　Robert Heinlein:

　　Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

　　Robert Louis Stevenson:

　　There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

　　Sophocles:

　　Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

　　Susan B. Anthony:

　　Independence is happiness.

　　Theodor Fontane:

　　Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second —— and best —— in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.

　　Thich Nhat Hanh:

　　Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

　　Thomas Jefferson:

　　The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

　　Thomas Jefferson:

　　But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

　　Willa Cather:

　　That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great