Happiness

"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result." Robert G. Ingersoll

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads to a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it." Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours." William James

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." Storm Jameson

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." Benjamin Disraeli

"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." Robert G. Ingersoll

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness." Thomas Jefferson

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little,soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kink look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,something to love and something to hope for." Joseph Addison

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." Dave Gardner

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so." William Ralph Inge

"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something." C.P. Gilman

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own. John Dryden

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

"Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." Joseph Addison 1672-1719

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."

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

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." -Buddha

"The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing."- William Ralph Inge

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." -Anon.