Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

How to gain how to keep how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do and of all they are willing to endure.

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

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.