"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Edith Wharton:
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we'd have a pretty good time."
Moliere:
"Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have its ups and downs."
Benjamin Franklin:
"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Martha Washington:
"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
Edward de Bono:
"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Helen Keller:
"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 which has been opened for us."
Carl Jung:
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Ken Hubbard:
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed."And last, but certainly not least:
