The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
James Allen

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
James Allen

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Denis Waitley

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero