"If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another." - Akhenaton

"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen

"Judge none blessed before his death." - Bible, Ecclesiasticus 11:28

"A cheerful heart is good medicine." - Bible, Proverbs 17:22

"Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, 'making it', or success." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns

"We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind." - Cicero

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails." - Euripides

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life." - William Feather

"To be happy one must have a good stomach and a bad heart." - Bernard de Fontenelle, Dialogues des morts

"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day." - Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography

"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things." - Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents

"Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness." - André Gide, The Immoralist

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us." - William Hazlitt

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." - Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself." - Victor Hugo

"Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else." - Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." - William Ralph Inge, in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." - Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness, to some, elation;
Is, to others, mere stagnation."
- Amy Lowell, Happiness

"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." - Bertrand Russell

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." - George Santayana, The Life of Reason

"I were but little happy, if I could say how much." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw, Candida

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?" - Adam Smith

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." - JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator

"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy." - AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon

"To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things." - SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and its Discontents

"Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length" - ROBERT FROST, (poem title)

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed." - KIN HUBBARD, Abe Martin's Broadcast

"One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." - JOHN STUART MILL, Autobiography

"No man is happy who does not think himself so." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts

"Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it." - SYDNEY SMITH, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." - THOMAS SZASZ, The Second Sin

"My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her the capacity to be happy." - Barnes, J.

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.

"They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)

"We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about." - Brown, Sr., H. Jackson

"Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." - Brown, John Marm

"There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday.... And the other ... is Tomorrow." - Burdette, Robert James

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy." - Connolly, Cyril

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"Joys divided are increased." - Holland, Josia Gilbert

"'This is eternal bliss,' I thought. 'This cannot be described; it is far too wonderful!'" - Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) describing a heart attack that nearly killed him

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." - Keller, Helen (1880-1968)

"Freindship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)

"To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved." - Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von

"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live." - Merton, Thomas

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without books, without friends, without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts." - Munth, Axel

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)

"The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'" - Quillen, Robert quoted in 'A Treasury of the Art of Living'

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)

"Never think you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning." - Trollope, Anthony

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

"Seen on the bathroom walls of Concordia University: 'Ignorance is bliss.' and right underneath it... 'I don't know what this means but I'm happy.'" - Unknown

"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." - Whitman, Walt