Happiness is an inside job.
William Arthur Ward

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton

When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
Julie Christie

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal