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.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
-Oscar Wilde
There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.
-Khalil Gibran
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-Albert Schweitzer
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
-Marcus Aurelius
"Meditations"
