It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
Ted Turner

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire