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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria Steinem

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.
Jeff Foxworthy

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
Jeff Foxworthy

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Eric Hoffer

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
Clarence Darrow

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope