A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Benjamin Franklin

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx