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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Baum, Vicki

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Feather, William C.

Skipping exercises your happiness muscles.
Adams, Jessi Lane

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Snow, C. P.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Jerrold, Douglas

Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.
Unknown, Author

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Bovee, Christian Nestell

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Blessington, Lady Marguerite

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Colton, Charles Caleb

I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen.
Abd-El-Raham

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Anthony, Robert

Jumping for joy is good exercise.
Unknown, Author

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Szasz, Thomas

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
Collins, Kitty O'Neill

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison, Joseph

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
Fisher, John

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Lane, Janet

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

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Wharton, Edith

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.
Gow, Charles

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Tarkington, Booth

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.
Alauda, Astrid

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Papernick, Norm

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
Unknown, Author

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Feather, William C.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Russell, Bertrand

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Allen, Woody

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Lynd, Robert S.

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.
Unknown, Author

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
Openheim, James

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
Unknown, Author

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Freud, Sigmund

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