Quotes

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-Mark Twain

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
-Johnny Carson

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
-Anonymous Author

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
-C.P. Snow

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prevert

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
-Edith Wharton

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

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
-Norman Bradburn

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-Anonymous Author

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck

If you want to be happy, be.
-Leo Tolstoy

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
-Cynthia Nelms

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.
-Lavetta Sue Wegman

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
-Josh Billings

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
-Bertrand Russell

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.
-Charles Gow

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
-Robert Anthony

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
-Norm Papernick

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
-Jean Ingelow

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
-William Feather

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
-Mildred Barthel

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
-Robert S. Lynd