A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
Richard Bach

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant