The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Chuck Norris

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

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

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Henny Youngman

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

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Vincent Van Gogh

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
John Belushi

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

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan Rivers

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw