Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always just beyond your grasp but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness and no virtue like mercy.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Independence is happiness.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing you will be successful.

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.