Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
-Tom Bodett
If you closely observe life, you will find, here with every pleasure there is pain...
and with every pain, pleasure. Hence, among all that is happening, if you keep
your eyes fixed only at the brighter side of it, you can always be happy.
-Deep Trivedi
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
-Madonna
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
-Jacques Prévert
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
