Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Ludwig van Beethoven

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Aeschylus

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Thomas Carlyle

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
Donatella Versace

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

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
Simon Travaglia