I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering that there is a sort of psychic economy whereby if you embrace success happiness and comfort these things have to be paid for.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could I would buy myself four hits every game.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

So my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

It is work work that one delights in that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I've gotten to a point where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

You know I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

When we were together I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's because you may never have done so in your entire life if you really think about it if you are really honest with yourself.

Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Happiness? No it's not there for me.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

We all have a hungry heart and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading walking around the woods in Ohio where I grew up.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy but in truth it is centered in ourselves.