The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope

The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams