Happiness

• "Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~Aristotle

• "Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions." ~Aristotle

• "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government." ~Aristotle

• "It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself." ~Thomas Paine

• "Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object." ~Hermann Hesse

• "All will be lost apart from happiness." ~Jacques Prévert (1900-1977)

• "The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet." ~James Oppenheim

• "You only know what happiness is once you're married. But then it's too late." ~Peter Sellers

• "You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy." ~Louis Sachar , Sideways Stories from Wayside School

• "A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships." ~Helen Keller

• "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." ~Helen Keller

• "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." ~Bertrand Russell (attributed)

• "Anything you're good at contributes to happiness." ~Bertrand Russell (attributed)

• "How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart." ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

• "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness." ~André Gide

• "The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!" ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (comic strip)

• "Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." ~William Cowper (attributed)

• "Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know." ~Richard Bach (attributed)

• "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." ~Ayn Rand (attributed)

• "Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." ~George Santayana The Life of Reason (1905)

• "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." ~Aldous Huxley